Particularily Quotes

#1. There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the various illusions that make life, particularily life with other people, possible.

Nicole Krauss

#2. We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

Lisa Guerrero

#3. This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.

Faith Popcorn

#4. My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence.

Liz Vassey

#5. It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.

Bill Murray

#6. Little by little he idolized her, endowing her with improbable virtues and imaginary sentiments, and after two weeks he thought of nothing else but her.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#7. If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James Anthony Froude

#8. By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

George Bancroft

#9. Shortly, some pipeline worker or shipfitter would slow down.

Tony Dunbar

#10. Theo finally did something purely for his own pleasure. Pulling his laptop toward him, he logged into his guilty secret - a local political debate forum - and looked for people who were wrong.

Con Riley

#11. Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.

Leonard Michaels

#12. To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.

Cesare Pavese

#13. I'm a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry's poetry. It doesn't have to be called a poem, you know.

Tennessee Williams

#14. Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

William J. Clinton

#15. So cute how you called out for Damen after conjuring that chaste little love scene in your head.

Alyson Noel

#16. We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

Ann Brashares