Queenette Shehane Quotes

#1. From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, to volunteer and to make a contribution.

Michael Hintze

#2. Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience - what they see, hear, think, and believe - will determine the future course for the nation.

James Dobson

#3. No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.

Roberto Bolano

#4. It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.

John Patrick Shanley

#5. I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

Stephen King

#6. I always took note of them, because I think if you're in the black or brown body, you're negotiating them all the time. It's like women taking note of sexism. It's a kind of incoherency that you are constantly negotiating.

Claudia Rankine

#7. Years after the fact, when people asked me how I got into the horse business, the answer was always the same: "I saw Secretariat.

George Rowand

#8. I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang with pain and pleasure. You have been my obsession, my passion, my philosophers' stone of fantasy. You are my desire, my longing, my spirit. I love you unconditionally. - Sabine Strohem

Nick Bantock

#9. It probably wasn't entirely her fault that she was such a bitter person. Having a name like Grace can be a serious stigma, especially when nature has endowed you with about as much charm as that of a disillusioned walrus.

Sorin Suciu

#10. Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.

Lorrie Moore

#11. Did you piss your pants, Eric?"
"Sed did it."
"Sed pissed your pants?" Trey shook his head slightly. "Man, that takes pissed off to a whole new level."
"I think that's pissed on, not off," Brian said.

Olivia Cunning

#12. I didn't care who kissed you first as long as I kissed you last.
-George from If We Kiss

Rachel Vail

#13. Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.

Gustavo Perez Firmat

#14. Your as slow as a fat kid on crutches

P.C. Cast

#15. This time they're making sure they can hold what they take: conquest is always easier than subjugation.

Yoon Ha Lee