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#1. It was loud. It was crowded. I hate crowds. I had to make small talk with a bunch of people I don't know, and I'm terrible at that. And some guy I'd just met wanted to do perverted things to me with noodles.
- Adrian Broussard, page 15

Ally Blue

#2. I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as the heading of an AP story on page 15 of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Khaled Hosseini

#3. There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun.

Patricia A. McKillip

#4. And finally, have you trained well enough so you can say what you want to say without getting hamstrung? Have you written enough so that you are relaxed and can allow the truth to get out without being ruined by self-conscious posturings or changed by a desire to become rich?

Ray Bradbury

#5. Then I turned the page and at the top it said THINGS I MISS ABOUT M and there was a list of 15 things, and the first was THE WAY HE HOLDS THINGS. I did not understand how you can miss the way somebody holds things.

Nicole Krauss

#6. I go through all of my old notebooks, and I put an X on every page when everything has been entered into the computer, and sometimes that takes 15 years. But eventually the notebooks are full of X's, and they're no good to me anymore.

William T. Vollmann

#7. My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

Jane Goodall

#8. Was it the weakness of a man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?

Todd Strasser

#9. If I can keep writing just one good page a day, I will have 15 published novels in my expected lifetime. Tick, tick, tick...

Barry James Hickey

#10. He flaunted obnoxious feats of memory by quoting page numbers and passages back in class and correcting his teachers on their text citations.14 "You forgot the comma," he said to one.15

Alice Schroeder

#11. I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

Kathleen Turner

#12. It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good.

Conan O'Brien

#13. The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers!

Ashwin Sanghi

#14. Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

Adam Driver

#15. I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

Bryan Adams

#16. It seemed as though Margaret hovered near Alice, aware of Alice when Alice didn't seem to be aware of Margaret.

Tracy Kidder

#17. If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.

Alexis Carrel

#18. Big egos have little ears.

Robert Schuller

#19. When I got laid off, I would write my friends these 15-page-long emails. This was before people had personal emails, and my friends would tell me that I was going to get them fired if I kept sending them stuff, so I started a website.

Jen Lancaster

#20. The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

Joe Harris

#21. To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.

Adam Leith Gollner

#22. In English the word 'peripatetic' means 'one who walks habitually and extensively.

Rebecca Solnit

#23. Gentlemen don't ask women impertinent questions about delicate subjects ... ... And they never, ever use crude expressions in mixed company. Not unless they're ready to face the consequences.

Beth Fantaskey

#24. A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.

Henry David Thoreau

#25. Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.

Fred Upton

#26. One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

Josh Mandel