Quotes About Minka

#1. Nora Lindell was gone. And, with Trey Stephens in jail, he was gone, too, in a way. By this time, we'd already lost Minka Dinnerman, as well (a car crash and cancer, respectively). It seemed, some days, that life was nothing more than a tally of the people who'd left us behind.

Hannah Pittard

#2. I pulled word after word from my core, like silk for a spider's web, spinning a make-believe life. That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones? - Minka (The Storyteller)

Jodi Picoult

#3. You see, Minka, my father would say. Anything is possible. Even the most terrible beast might one day be a distant memory. He would hold my hand in his, tracing my finger along the brightest stars in the constellation. Look, he would say. There is the head, and the tail. There's the heart.

Jodi Picoult

#4. Do you have any idea how beautiful you are?" he asked hoarsely.
Minka didn't answer. She simply reached up and tangled her fingers in his hair, urging him down for a searing kiss.

Paige Tyler

#5. You can put a pig in a ball gown, Minka. That doesn't make it a debutante.

Jodi Picoult

#6. She didn't know why being near him made the beast inside her go away, and she didn't care. She was Minka in his arms and a monster out of them. That was all that mattered to her.

Paige Tyler

#7. I was a tomboy, not a girlie girl.

Minka Kelly

#8. I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

Minka Kelly

#9. No matter what you're doing, live it. Make an experience. Have fun. Relate to someone. Take them in. Learn.

Minka Kelly

#10. I think the most attractive thing for me when I meet a guy is confidence and him being comfortable in his own skin. I like someone who doesn't need approval or validation.

Minka Kelly

#11. I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

Minka Kelly

#12. ... I fell in love with him even more, because I realized I was not just falling in love with Taymour but also with generations of him that connect through history, traits that had been passed down from one generation to the next. I was in love with his ancestry that stretched out for centuries.

Saleem Haddad

#13. I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life.

Minka Kelly

#14. When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day.

Minka Kelly

#15. If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

Rick Warren

#16. I like to go wakeboarding. It's my new favorite sport. It's like skiing but on a snowboard that has little shoes on it.

Minka Kelly

#17. I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs.

Minka Kelly

#18. In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

Minka Kelly

#19. I exist wholly in this space he has created, this space where I'm the most wonderful thing he's ever loved, and he's the only man I ever want to be with.

Minka Kent

#20. They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.

Bill Laimbeer

#21. Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

Charles Stanley

#22. People with boundary problems usually have distorted attitudes about responsibility. They feel that to hold people responsible for their feelings, choices, and behaviors is mean. However, Proverbs repeatedly says that setting limits and accepting responsibility will save lives (Prov. 13:18, 24).

Henry Cloud

#23. In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

Minka Kelly

#24. It's uncomfortable, definitely, but it's also really, really great to talk drums with kids and hear them get excited about music and talk about listening to the drums.

Patty Schemel

#25. I learned how to scuba dive, which is something that I've always wanted to do.

Minka Kelly

#26. On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.'

Stephen Tobolowsky

#27. When you consider someone without assumptions, your inner antenna picks up a new signal. Instead of tuning in to someone's personality, you tune in to his or her essence. This essence is spirit, and when you detect it, the natural response is love.

Deepak Chopra

#28. The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.

Minka Kelly

#29. I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

Franz Kafka

#30. Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.

Tom Petty

#31. And anyway, modeling wasn't for me. I'm too short. I've got a big butt. It wasn't going to happen.

Minka Kelly

#32. I think Miami is such a beautiful, sexy, gorgeous place. I love the people there.

Minka Kelly

#33. It blows my mind that anyone could be unkind to anyone.

Minka Kelly

#34. Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

Jorge Luis Borges

#35. Sentences take shape from the words that are stacked on top of one another in the dusty chambers of my mind, waiting to be used--words that now peel off my lips, trembling as they come to life.

Minka Pradelski

#36. I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff.

Minka Kelly

#37. If you don't know that God loves you, he does. He loves his creation. And you're his creation.

Lacey Sturm

#38. To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!

Jimmy Doolittle

#39. Exercise is like meditation for me, and I'm giving myself that time ... I can't live without it now.

Minka Kelly

#40. Failure is a fuel for excuses.

Jet Li

#41. I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

Minka Kelly