Kay Boyle Quotes

#1. I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

Kay Boyle

#2. Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul

Kay Boyle

#4. Stay humble, stay grounded, remember what got you to that level-and that's hard work.

Tim Howard

#5. It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it.

J.D. Salinger

#6. Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.

Kay Boyle

#7. Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

Kay Boyle

#8. Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Carol Ann Duffy

#9. He is Running and Shouting and teasing around ,people know that he is just a vamp on the ground. people no more fear him . But the one sitting silent with no sigh of talky move,people simply fear him because no one knows what destruction he can bring to one in the this bushy grass of violence.

Yash Hoskere

#10. Casey Anthony was found not guilty. This means that President Obama's economic team is only the second-most clueless group in America.

Jay Leno

#11. The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

Kay Boyle

#12. You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

Kay Boyle

#13. I'm teaching myself to believe in things I don't understand, I don't even know if they're true, but that's what dreamers do.

Demi Lovato

#14. Whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

Kay Boyle

#15. Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.

Kay Boyle

#16. The cook hates the waiter, and they both hate the customer

Haruki Murakami

#17. Honus was a wonderful fellow, so good-natured and friendly to everyone. Gee, we loved that guy. And the fans were crazy about him. Yeah, everybody loved that old Dutchman! If anyone told a good joke or a funny story, Honus would slap his knee and let out a loud roar and say, "What about that!" So

Lawrence S. Ritter

#18. My goal is to live to be 100.

Tommy Lasorda

#19. I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it.

Echo Bodine

#20. Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.

Kay Boyle

#21. I don't ever pray, but I'm praying now. If God could just give me you, I'll never ask for anything else. Please come back to me. We've only just begun. We can get through this. We're not broken ... this can be fixed. I'll fix it for us.

M. Clarke

#22. There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

Kay Boyle

#23. Don't you touch me again. I will knock you out, junior!

Chris Jericho

#24. Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

William Kunstler

#25. Josh will begin disappearing into a future where the only place he and I remain friends is on the Internet.

Jay Asher