Journal April 17 Quotes

#1. Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

Nick Tosches

#2. She satisfies my ideal." Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves; what appears to be "love at first sight" is often the fulfillment of a desire and the realization of a dream.

Fulton J. Sheen

#3. I'm leaving the door partly open," he says as he follows Tegan. "You scream if you need me."
Once he is outside, Richard says, "He does realize that if he hears your scream, it's already too late.

J.A. London

#4. There were a number of impractical shoes, stilettos mostly, beautiful and strange.

Emily St. John Mandel

#5. Monsters, ghost and everything spiritual and non-spiritual exists. Because we create it, the way to stop it..., is just to stop thinking about it. - (This is how I solve the problem)

Deyth Banger

#6. Life is what u make it,if you want yours to be a cake just go ahead and bake it

Mthavalover

#7. Fiona Shaw is one of my idols. She's phenomenatastic. I just make up a word for her - that's how much I love her.

Rutina Wesley

#8. The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

Benjamin Franklin

#9. A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not amused.

Erma Bombeck

#10. All life is but a skull-bone and
A rack of ribs through which
we keep passing food & fuel-
just so's we can burn so
furious beautiful.

Jack Kerouac

#11. Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.

Thomas Frank

#12. Hence monastic prayer, especially meditation and contemplative prayer, is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him whom we have found, who loves us, who is near to us, who comes to us to draw us to himself.

Thomas Merton

#13. Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

Leni Riefenstahl

#14. A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. I mean to be president of all the people.

George H. W. Bush

#15. There's only so long you can play the silent type standing in the background. 'GoldenEye' was good for that. I was the villain: James Bond was doing all the heavy lifting. I liked that.

Sean Bean