Top 100 Naylor Quotes
#1. by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and The Giver by Lois Lowry. And
Sharon M. Draper
#2. He holds his glass up and turns to me as a single flake catches on the rim before melting down the one side into an amber world where bubbles burst and are born, burst and are born.
Gloria Naylor
#3. Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.
Gloria Naylor
#4. That's the unforgivable sin, you know."
"What is?"
"Refusing to forgive someone."
"Refusing to forgive someone is the unforgivable sin?" I asked incredulously.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#5. Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#6. Between the 6th and 7th grade, something happens to your eyes. they water a lot. I think its so you can get all the watering out of the way before you begin wearing mascara.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#7. Ut it's one of the reflections of our times. Young minds today are dulled by television and other visual sensations. When reading was one of the few pleasures available, we could recite whole passages to eachother.
Gloria Naylor
#8. When you raise a god instead of a child, you're bound to be serving him for the rest of your days. Same thing holds when you marry a god.
Gloria Naylor
#10. Just like that chicken coop, everything got four sides: his side, her side, an outside, and an inside. All of it is the truth.
Gloria Naylor
#12. Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.
Gloria Naylor
#13. Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.
Gloria Naylor
#14. Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.
Gloria Naylor
#15. Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Gloria Naylor
#16. The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#17. SEO is knowing what the search engines want and giving it to them ... so hard they f***ing bleed
David Naylor
#18. The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.
Gloria Naylor
#19. Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him.
'This is your real life, Al,' he said, 'Don't start living in the future. That's like gulping down a piece of fudge cake and then asking yourself, 'Where'd it go?' You're missing the moment.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#20. Like they say, it takes all types to make the world. But sometimes you wish it didn't.
Gloria Naylor
#21. Pretending that Shiloh's a bear, tryin' to get in. The more they squeal, the more Shiloh wiggles about, tryin' to get his nose under the edge of the sheet, tail going ninety miles an hour. If that dog had wings, he'd fly, except his propeller would be on the wrong end.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#22. A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.
Gloria Naylor
#24. I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.
Gloria Naylor
#25. It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body
an overwhelming sense of calm ... I actually began to feel blessed.
Gloria Naylor
#26. Life is accepting what is and working from that.
Gloria Naylor
#27. Everything can change in an instant. Everything. And then there is only before and after.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#28. A politician has an axe to grind
With which he aims to chop off half your mind.
Chris I. Naylor
#29. Edward Crowe came out from the glacier on the north
Naylor
#30. Black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.
Gloria Naylor
#31. Do we have a hand mirror?' I asked from the kitchen doorway.
'Never use one,' said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream.
'Naturally, you're a male. What you see is what you've got,' I said resentfully.
'Huh?' said Lester.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#32. His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all the sadness that his head couldn't hold.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#33. We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#34. Life's too short to spend time trying to explain the obvious to an idiot.
Gloria Naylor
#35. When you've found the right one - when you see him, when you're with him - you'll feel like you're coming home.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#36. It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#37. The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.
Gloria Naylor
#38. If you are embarrassed about your sex, it must mean that you feel there is something demeaning or disgusting about being female. You are all wondrously made, girls. Remember that: wondrously made, and you should carry your sex proudly, a badge of honor.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#39. We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.
Gloria Naylor
#40. I was so busy enjoying the change in you, I didn't notice it in myself.
Gloria Naylor
#41. There are many subtle ways with which you can make one strong point.
Gloria Naylor
#42. I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.
Gloria Naylor
#43. The grass on the other side of the hill may well be greener, but you should always check that there isn't something with teeth and claws crouching in it.
Chris I. Naylor
#44. For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#45. The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#47. As a business owner don't think your limitations, think business; it's all about business.
Vernita Naylor
#49. Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It's back on the shelves.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#50. But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
Gloria Naylor
#51. You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.
Gloria Naylor
#52. I know, but if I feel this bad for Gramps, how am I going to feel when it's Dad?" Tyler told me.
"You'll feel even worse, of course, but you'll carry on, because happiness has a way of creeping in again. It really does," I said.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#53. 3)"One man's weed is another man's flower." (115).
Gloria Naylor
#54. Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
Gloria Naylor
#55. I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, she'd probably say that sexual intercourse was like a deer getting antlers or something.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#56. Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence. - Rimmer
Doug Naylor
#57. One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#58. Bloody noses had made them friends, but giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts made them brothers.
Gloria Naylor
#60. I hate that phrase: move on. Like no matter what happened or what you did, you just "move on," and that's supposed to make everything all right.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#62. There is nothing in back of this cafe. Since the place sits right on the margin between the edge of the world and infinite possibility, he back door opens out to a void. It takes courage to turn the knob and heart to leave the steps.
Gloria Naylor
#64. There are no absolute truths, and the best historians know that. You strive to capture a moment of time, and if your work is done properly, history becomes a written photograph.
Gloria Naylor
#65. The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head.
Gloria Naylor
#66. My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider.
David Naylor
#67. ... and I'm thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that ain't bad for eleven.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#69. I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years ... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one.
Thomas Naylor
#71. We all don't have to see eye to eye in order to see our way to the Kingdom. It's the heart condition of each man that the Lord will judge.
Gloria Naylor
#72. A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.
Gloria Naylor
#73. I fear books; for I have heard it said, and I think it true, that a man who
spends long enough in their company grows at last unmindful of the world outside their covers, and lives finally in a twilight world of fantastic things and places as insubstantial as dreams.
Chris Naylor
#74. A star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.
Gloria Naylor
#75. Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#76. There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#77. That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.
Gloria Naylor
#78. Funny how one lie leads to another and before you know it, your whole life can be a lie. I sit on the porch swing later, not even
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#79. Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.
Gloria Naylor
#80. I wanted my children and grandchildren to know that no matter when you are born or where you live, happiness and disappointments have the same flavors the world over.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#81. Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#84. The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.
Gloria Naylor
#85. You get a dog on your mind, it seems to fill up the whole space. Everything you do reminds you of that dog. When
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#86. The unpainted walls of the long rectangular room were soaked with the smell of greasy chicken and warm, headless beer. The brown and pink faces floated above the trails of used cigarette smoke like bodiless carnival balloons.
Gloria Naylor
#87. Karen made a face. "Oh, c'mon."
"I don't think so," I said.
"Old Play-by-the-Rules McKinley," said Brian, laughing at me.
I could hardly stand him. "You've got that right," I said, and turned away.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#88. Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.
Gloria Naylor
#89. Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.
Gloria Naylor
#90. Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.
Gloria Naylor
#91. It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#92. My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.
David Naylor
#94. Patrick and I were about as different as two people could possibly be. Nothing embarrasses Patrick very much, and everything embarrasses me. Just being alive embarrasses me.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#95. The beginnings are gone, Laurel. But we can start with today and what you got around you.
Gloria Naylor
#97. 1) "school isn't where the real learning happens." (3).
Gloria Naylor
#98. Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me.
Gloria Naylor
#99. If Jesus ever comes back to earth again, I'm thinking, he'll come as a dog, because there isn't anything as humble or patient or loving or loyal as the dog I have in my arms right now.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#100. Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty political systems are the United States and a number of third world military dictatorships.
Thomas Naylor
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