Mike Boyle Quotes

#1. Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.

Margaret Mead

#2. When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

P.D. James

#3. I've been mad as hell. So goddamn tired. Mad and tired without knowing it. If you're still following me, if you're still here - you are my people and I've been looking for you my entire life.

Paul Dore

#4. It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#5. I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

Jack Osbourne

#6. Vision -
You dream the impossible;
You imagine the incredible;
You achieve the extraordinary.

Tim Hawkins

#7. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high-school education.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#8. Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.

Susanna Kaysen

#9. She took his hand, and he smiled down at her. "No mating yet?"
"It depends on how...persuasive you could be."
"Hot damn, woman. I can be persuasive.

Terry Spear

#10. I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I don't write anything - put anything in my books - that I'd be embarrassed to put in an adult book.

Louis Sachar

#11. ...I guess when someone's really hurt you, there always seems to be a possibility for more.

Lorna Landvik