Matthias Knutzen Quotes

#1. I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!

Susan Orlean

#2. You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

David Rockefeller

#3. Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.

Jeff Buckley

#4. Nothing says awkward like coming in your pants while dry humping.

Jay McLean

#5. The most progressive minister must shipwreck if he has a block of reactionary bureaucrats against him. And in Germany the bureaucrats all have their jobs still. - These pen-pushing Napoleons are invincible.

Erich Maria Remarque

#6. When does someone love you enough to put you before himself? Had I done so with Michiko?

Deborah Baldwin

#7. You aren't human. Your mother is a...sex demon." She tripped over that a little, because seriously, that was one of those things you never thought you'd say. {Location 2966}

Larissa Ione

#8. Misery is a match that never goes out.

Thomas Huxley

#9. Forgive the cliche, but friends are truly the family you choose.

Jen Lancaster

#10. (That saying about how God gives special needs children to special moms is crap. He gives special kids to moms who are already crazy themselves.)

Tami Lynn Tate

#11. I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.

Steve Merrick

#12. I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

Don Henley

#13. I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats.

Frank Tuttle

#14. Words give inspiration, nothing more. You want redemption? The very thing you seek inspiration for? Fight for it like your life depended on it, because it always does.

A.J. Darkholme