Paper Cutouts Quotes

#1. They are paper cutouts rather than people, Pram thought. They are shadows with black dots for eyes and grim lines for mouths. They almost resemble the dead, but not quite.

Lauren DeStefano

#2. The building is a tumbling house of cards behind me. The bus bitches are paper cutouts.

Jolene Stockman

#3. I have no idea, Jim," Lowen said. "I'm a doctor, not a private investigator.

John Scalzi

#4. Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Groucho Marx

#5. I am a hyphenated person, but I am not falling apart; I am putting together.

Guillermo Verdecchia

#6. The time he'd cheated on Syl, Syl had seen through him, broken off their engagement, and cheated on him with Charles, which had fried his ass possibly worse than any single other ass frying he'd ever had, in a life that, it recently seemed, was simply a series of escalating ass fries.

George Saunders

#7. Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.

Buzz Aldrin

#8. Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.

Andy Stanley

#9. I enjoy money. You got to know how to enjoy it, though. A lot of people enjoy it the wrong way: They spend it all.

Moses Malone

#10. Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

Charles Ludlam

#11. Only in the silence of our mind are we One.

Vivian Amis

#12. There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon the simple raising of our minds to God, and the more simple and stripped of feeling it is, the surer it is.

Jane Frances De Chantal

#13. If you want to be friend of progression, be the enemy of fear!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

Samuel Johnson

#15. And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then.

Patty Hearst