Memoirs Of A Teenage Amnesiac Quotes

#1. When dad says he's going to church, he actually means he's going to a library or a bookstore. - Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac.

Gabrielle Zevin

#2. The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future.

P.D. James

#4. I love being onstage.

Stephen Colbert

#5. You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself
your life, your soul. And you better give the audience everything you can
physically, emotionally, musically. Then maybe they'll accept you and give you a standing ovation at the end.

Neil Diamond

#6. You wouldn't be abandoning me if you stopped to get a Band-Aid, you know.

Gabrielle Zevin

#7. When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.

R.L. Stine

#8. But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. It's important to have a buddy like that. Somebody who'll stop you from doing that really stupid thing you were gonna do just because you couldn't think of anything better.
unidentified soldier, eulogizing his dead buddy

Henry V. O'Neil

#10. When lifting, I'm always with a trainer because the thing that makes a difference is that last 20% in your training, and he very scientifically looks after my food as well, because when I'm going for a 'shirt off' shot, everything changes the month before, and I'm timed down to the day.

Hugh Jackman

#11. When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#12. I always had a sense that clothes, be it uniform or vintage, could help to create a character.

Collier Schorr

#13. I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it."
~Will Landsman

Gabrielle Zevin

#14. But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

Gabrielle Zevin

#15. I'm always looking for a cover subject that reflects the magazine, an interest in fashion, in culture, in society. We're trying to bring the world into the pages of 'Vogue.' We do that by tapping into the zeitgeists with our cover subjects.

Anna Wintour

#16. There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'

David Schwimmer

#17. Good boundaries, created by the use of good intimacy skills, keep a committed or intimate relationship lightly balanced between the needs of the individual and the needs of the relationship.

Anne Katherine

#18. Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I.
Don Juan Matus

Carlos Castaneda

#19. Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.

Galileo Galilei

#20. There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Georg C. Lichtenberg