Lisa Alther Quotes

#1. Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

Lisa Alther

#2. You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

Anatoly Karpov

#3. To eat Ugali is an art of adventure in itself. Forget cutlery because all you need is your lovely fingers.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#4. My auntie and uncle live in Inglewood, and I used to stay with them when I would come to L.A. to audition for pilot season and other things like that.

Shameik Moore

#5. Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

Lisa Alther

#6. The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

Lisa Alther

#7. We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

Lisa Alther

#8. The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.

Lisa Alther

#9. I threw my arms around him. "I yearn only for you."
Quinton gave a self-conscious shrug and an embarrassed laugh. "I feel the same way about you and I'm sorry I'm . . . being an ass. Also, I suspect you just wanted to use 'yearn' in a sentence.

Kat Richardson

#10. I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

Lisa Alther

#11. A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Lisa Alther

#12. Okay," she said. "I'm going to start with four basic principles of civilization. 1) Ethics is based on consent. 2) Victims shall not mete out justice themselves. 3) Government serves the will of the people. 4) Giant unwashed beards are gross.

Zach Weinersmith

#13. In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.

Bertrand Russell

#14. Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.

Chris Chocola

#16. Basically, a case conceptualization is a method for understanding and explaining a client's concerns and for guiding the treatment process. It functions like a "bridge" to connect assessment and treatment with clinical outcomes.

Jonathan Sperry

#17. Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

Lisa Alther

#18. Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings.

David Thwaites

#19. I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Lisa Alther

#20. One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

Lisa Alther

#21. I always thought it was a question of achieving some permanent state of tranquillity ... but it's not. It's more like learning to surf. The waves keep rolling in, each different from the last, and you have to ride them, instead of getting pounded to bits.

Lisa Alther

#22. No pain was permanent, and no loss was real. That even though people treated each other abominably, even though they left, even though you let them go, even though you never laid eyes on them again, this fugue that linked you continued, whether you liked it or not.

Lisa Alther

#23. If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

Lisa Alther

#24. If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.

Lisa Alther

#25. What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

Lisa Alther

#26. It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.

Lisa Alther

#27. it's only through taking risks that success can be found.

Jamie Bautista

#28. We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere.
And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.

Ted Bundy

#29. Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

Lisa Alther

#30. That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Lisa Alther

#31. Successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.

Lisa Alther

#32. I thought I'd done with it all. Now I've begun again."
"Begun what?"
"Life."
"Life!" she re-echoed, with a queer thrill.
"It's life," he said. "There's no keeping clear. And if you do keep clear, you might almost as well die. So if I've got to be broken open again, I have
.

D.H. Lawrence

#33. The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

Lisa Alther

#34. We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

Beth Orton

#35. The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

Lisa Alther

#36. Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.

Lisa Alther

#37. Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

Lisa Alther