Kliegman Quotes

#1. My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

Jodi Picoult

#2. As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

Edith Piaf

#3. Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.

John Luther Adams

#4. Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.

Andy Cohen

#5. the rasp of the respirator's filter were about as comforting as Darth Vader reading a bedtime story,

Andy McNab

#6. 'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces

Kate Burridge

#7. We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.

Jim Clyburn

#8. About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.

Scott Walker

#9. Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy ... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

Harold S. Kushner

#10. The figure is not lifting the wands, he is holding them down. The difficulty consists in holding back what is, by nature, meant to fly.

Isabel Radow Kliegman

#11. I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn't a plan.

Zoe Kravitz

#12. How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

John Fowles

#13. In this bed, out of it. Naked or not. No boundaries. All in. Nothin' held back." He pressed his hips between my legs and I drew in a sharp breath. "You're all mine, Cassidy, every fuckin' inch. And I'm all yours, just the same.

Kristen Ashley