John Wideman Our Time Quotes

#1. Life stinks, but I love it so.

David George Richards

#2. But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norfolk and I'll find it there for her.'
'The lost corner of England,' I said.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#3. My girlfriend was agreeing not to remove anyone's vital organs with a salad fork for my sake. It was a sweet moment. Too

Elliott James

#4. Looking at each other like, What the fuck's going on here? We big-time undercover supercops.

John Edgar Wideman

#5. Smells like homeless man's crotch. Not that I've ever been up close and personal with a homeless man's crotch, but ...

Stacey Jay

#6. In countless small ways the world around us grows gradually shittier. Well, I don't like it at all.

Bill Bryson

#7. The more you genuinely praise people in your consciousness, the easier it is to tune into your own inner joy.

Christopher Dines

#8. Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons.

Jentezen Franklin

#9. I don't have beef with nobody.

Timbaland

#10. I wish I had time to listen to music more.

John Edgar Wideman

#11. Paradise Lost is a poem. The old, blind bastard's trying to sing to you. Listen, as the Isley Brothers say, to the music. You must learn to do that before you can expect to understand. Slowly. Slowly. A few licks at a time.

John Edgar Wideman

#12. Design a flight of stairs for the day a nervous bride
descends them. Shape a window to frame a view of a
specific tree on a perfect day in autumn.

Matthew Frederick

#13. If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.

Shania Twain

#14. Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.

Buzz Aldrin

#15. One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me out - the idea that someone is reading as I'm writing stuff.

Jennifer Armentrout

#16. I admire actors who are bold and try to go forward over the cliche and propose something original to the audience.

Berenice Marlohe

#17. I couldn't bring myself to call him either "Bill," which would signal friendly familiarity, or "Doctor Vogel," which would imply respect.

Frankie Bow

#18. Why did the two most important things in her life have to require her attention at exactly the same time?

Rachel Spangler