Musomesa Senior Quotes

#1. Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin, and sometimes when you sit, they get bumpy!

Kristen Bell

#2. I'm writing all the time. I tend to work on at least two books simultaneously. I'll spend time with one, and then I'll spend time with the other. Finishing takes whatever time it takes.

Alice McDermott

#3. We are a fallen species, spitting on the gift of salvation. Humanity is irredeemable.

Jeff Zentner

#4. The Eagles's 1977 hit "Hotel California" was a flawless piece of craftsmanship, but it was about upscale fatalism and gilded cages, about the hotel you can check into but never leave. It sounded as though Joan Didion had started writing lyrics. As

Rebecca Solnit

#5. There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

Heinrich Mann

#6. I know," I told him. "It sounds insane. It is insane."
His eyes fixed on mine. "You killed someone," he said, his voice barely audible. "With a shoe."
"He had a sword," I fired back and then, to my shock, David burst out laughing.

Rachel Hawkins

#7. When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's the best part - a few seconds to celebrate and relax.

Jenn Suhr

#8. Optimism skipped out on the rent a while back, but the cynic in the penthouse won't leave until led out by marshals.

Colson Whitehead

#9. Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven

John Irving

#10. Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.

Atul Gawande

#11. Context is funny. How things hit you. Like on one planet there is gravity and you are walking along, then there is no gravity and you are airborne, sort of flying in slow parabolic leaps

Peter Heller

#12. As an investor-entrepreneur, I've always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

Peter Thiel

#13. Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

Jeanette Winterson