Junked Quotes

#1. Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain.

Joseph Heller

#2. You're not buying only junk, you're buying junked lives. And more - you'll see - you're buying bitterness.

John Steinbeck

#3. A fix-it man, they used to call it, when things still got fixed instead of just junked. If

Anna Quindlen

#4. She's not dead, Henry kept telling himself. But her life, all lives, seemed tenuous when he saw how quickly, with what ease, all the trappings, all the fine details of a lifetime could be packed and scattered, or junked.

Ian McEwan

#5. I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials.

Howard Dean

#6. It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

Marcus Allen

#7. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So, he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. When I lace my shoes I can't stand when they are twisted and dirty. It just looks sloppy. Even if it's a new pair of Chuck Taylors and the laces are all twisted it looks like you don't care.

Mark McNairy

#9. There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

Peter Diamandis

#10. It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

Daniel Handler

#11. I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.

Megan Fox

#12. Across the dying fire, Seth Clearwater - his eyes wide with adulation for the fraternity of tribal protectors- nodded his agreement.

Stephenie Meyer

#13. The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#14. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do

Frank Pittman

#15. I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

Garth Risk Hallberg