Page 42 Quotes

#1. Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.

Barbara Mertz

#2. When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.

Al Goldstein

#3. Is not the space between Heaven and Earth like a bellows? It is empty, but lacks nothing. The more it moves, the more comes out of it.

Laozi

#4. If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.

John Malkovich

#5. The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Yeah, I had top-secret clearance and everything.

Wanda Sykes

#7. I would often get called in to play a very loud, obnoxious - which, truth be told, I can be loud and obnoxious. My issue was when it was like a ghetto girl; I didn't think I was good at it; I didn't feel authentic. And so I had insecurities about going in on it.

Retta

#8. It goes to show you. You can look for relationship but you can't look for love.

Jeff Brown

#9. Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Pearl S. Buck