Private Doss Quotes

#1. No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#2. The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#3. The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. The house was a sepulcher, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection.

Daphne Du Maurier

#5. It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention

Chad Harbach

#6. People think that I'm very serious.

Kate Mosse

#7. In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.

Malin Akerman

#8. When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

Ehud Olmert

#9. Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

John Steinbeck

#10. I definitely look at my body and I go: 'Yuck.'

Louis C.K.

#11. Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well.

E.W. Howe

#12. For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

E. M. Forster