Offish Quotes

#1. A corpuscule's like an empty body with an angry-ass spirit shoved in it. Rude as fuck thing to do to someone if you ask me.

Daniel Jose Older

#2. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us.

Paulo Coelho

#3. The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

Laozi

#4. Scottish men are . . . hardy?

Kresley Cole

#5. If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

James P. Gorman

#6. I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

Trent Reznor

#7. I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

Anne McCaffrey

#8. No one tells you this, but when you enter your thirties, you will find vaguely in-shape bodies ridiculously attractive as opposed to your Chris Hemsworth predilections of the past. This is not to say that ripped dudes turn you off.

Phoebe Robinson

#9. He bent to put his cheek against hers. His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. "I have wanted to do this," he said, "every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you.

Cassandra Clare

#10. In an average person, ATP is produced at a rate of 9 x 1020 molecules per second, which equates to a turnover rate (the rate at which it is produced and consumed) of about 65 kg every day.

Nick Lane

#11. Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.

John Updike

#12. Only here, long after midnight, while everyone else was sleeping, when nothing was expected of him, could Schwartz convince himself that he was working hard enough. These hours felt stolen, added to his life. The voice fell quiet.

Chad Harbach

#13. I have rewritten - often several times - every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

Vladimir Nabokov

#14. But Mari, I just don't think I can justify a show-offish wedding. I've never been that sort of girl. I'm the 'Let's go to a third-world country and take care of orphans' kind of girl, you know?

Janice Thompson

#15. Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

Isabel Gillies

#16. For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#17. Afraid of offending with an off word or the slightest insensitivity, I keep an unobtrusive and silent distance. Nevertheless, my pursed lips and offish stance are perceived as cold, managing to offend all.

Richelle E. Goodrich