Michigan Authors Quotes

#1. You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

Brett Hoebel

#2. The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.

Doris Lessing

#3. The morning light shimmered through the trees and gave the lake an otherworldly hue. Everything in summer Michigan seemed to have a soft shimmer to it, as though God had hung gauze over the sky and softly scattered glitter on all His creations.

Viola Shipman

#4. To justify their avoidance of embarrassment, the whole profession tells the rest of us, based on "extensive scientific studies," that black is white.

Timothy Ferriss

#5. Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

Joseph Campbell

#6. For a moment, life isn't as hard as it seems. Effortless. It's effortless, and then the gauntlet falls.

Rachel Van Dyken

#7. It Went By Me something very beautiful just went by me something not to tell in words in feelings so fragile so wild something yet to tell is no longer why and when it left i can't tell.

Trinh T. Minh-ha

#8. I shook my head. "Not Interested" I said.
he straightened up. "Not interested in what?"
In you." I couldn't be more blunt.
Excuse me, miss, but I was going to ask if you would like to sign up for karaoke.

Karen E. Olson

#9. If if could bottle and patent 'Logic', I'd give it away.

Andrea L'Artiste

#10. She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven.

Louis Bromfield

#11. I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

Uzo Aduba

#12. People like dialogue. Being a part of it or reading it. Me personally, I'd rather write it.

Andrea L'Artiste

#13. I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

Joe Walsh

#14. How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?

Jay Asher

#15. I hate him for what he's done, but I still love him for the man he was.

Dorothy Koomson

#16. Closed eyes cannot see the light

Andrea L'Artiste

#17. The Loon Charm

To A Life Filled with A Love Whose Voice Always Calls You Home

Viola Shipman

#18. Well you can be sure I'd stop forcing the poor Jews to tart up their humble little temple dedication anniversary into some corn-fed whore of a holiday to compete with our super-slut three-titted Christmas.

Augusten Burroughs

#19. Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; Not a "Box of chocolate" You have to put the pieces together to get the 'real' picture.

Andrea L'Artiste