Protracting Shoulder Quotes

#1. I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.

Lynn Coady

#2. I'm giving you my Bible answers. I'm not well educated.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#3. A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

D. A. Pennebaker

#4. It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

Barack Obama

#5. I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

Trent Reznor

#6. the lights shining off it that only days ago seemed to dance across the sky, but now glared at her in mocking winks.

Ella Frank

#7. Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival. Certainly Howard Dean will be of no use steering her to the exit. It's like Micronesia telling Russia to denuke.

Maureen Dowd

#8. Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

Timothy Keller

#9. In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#10. Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Henry Miller

#11. All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Dalai Lama

#12. Beyond the astral dimensions are the causal dimensions. They are not spatial or time oriented. They are planes of light, and they make up the outer limits of nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#13. There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

Alan Watts

#14. I clamped down on the sick, hurt feeling inside that threatened to make me burst into tears. My eyes dried instantly. I was good at hiding tears. I should be; I'd had three years to get good at it.

P.C. Cast

#15. Whenever it rains, I remember him, not as a tear that hails down as a raindrop, but as a God of fertility. As, every time I remember him, his memories conceive a baby of emotions in me!

Mehek Bassi