Pg 24 Quotes

#1. The mere presence of a human being, with its offer of at least some companionship, broke down the tension in which his nerves had long been resisting a bottomless dismay. pg. 24

C.S. Lewis

#2. I don't direct movies for a living.

Tommy Lee Jones

#3. I love all kinds of movies. I love a really good comedy and not the cheesy ones. My parents hate this, but I love horror films. Those are my favorite, and of course, dramatic roles. I'm really drawn to those as well. All different genres.

Liana Liberato

#4. I never really knew how to throw a football before,

Terrelle Pryor

#5. His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.
In seventeen years no one has said my name like that

Tahereh Mafi

#6. There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,
when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.

Kate Chopin

#7. The alcohol induced memory loss is a form of protection from all the stupid things you did the night before.

Kirsty Moseley

#8. I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

#9. Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

Douglas Wilson

#10. There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult.

Jowita Bydlowska

#11. I am astonished, when I pause to think about it, to discover myself to be an author of humorous novels for children. Or an author at all. I had a childhood much like everyone else's. What went wrong?

Sid Fleischman

#12. ...her hand caught his wrist. "Kevin, there's so much goodness inside of you. Don't be afraid to let people see it. Don't be afraid to love."
He stared at her. He couldn't let her see what she didn't want him to fear.

Amie Wolf

#13. Historians have determined that had Chamberlain not charged that day, the rebels would have won at Gettysburg.

Andy Andrews

#14. the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#15. The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.

Paul Hoffman

#16. It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?

David Byrne

#17. My family is just embarrassingly proud of me. My brothers get a little protective ... overly protective. I've made rules now where I say: "You can't go outside and scream at people if they have cameras!"

Kristen Stewart

#18. But thinking was for pussies, and I wasn't one of those, even if I had one.

Anonymous

#19. Let's just day love isn't easy. even when you're the sole survivors of a plane crash and you have the hots for each other.

Rebecca Serle