Kayaked Through Flooded Quotes

#1. A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.

Chaim Potok

#2. I think it's hard to understand in economics. It's easier to understand on psychology.It's a kind of panic or a sense that the world economy is just not in as good shape as we thought and so everybody is chasing everybody else.

David Wessel

#3. The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.

Laozi

#4. The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

Randy Travis

#5. I'm in love with you and you don't want anything to do with me so I think we can make this work: a love story.

Melissa Broder

#6. I dream a dream that dreams back at me

Toni Morrison

#7. Be careful ... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#8. Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.

Tian Dayton

#9. I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!

Elif Batuman

#10. There are only two ways out for animals at pounds
being adopted or being killed. And cats have such a low rate of adoption that many pounds, even in some larger cities, don't bother to take them in at all. Not for nothing is it always the "dog pound" and never the "cat pound.

Cleveland Amory

#11. I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.

Bailee Madison

#12. truth, justice, temperance, and

Jonathan Swift

#13. I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

Jennifer Granholm

#14. She had prayed for someone else, anyone else but Den. She'd been hoping for a nice, quiet man like Papa. Instead, the gods had sent her the man who'd scorched the world.

C.L. Wilson