Quotes About Violence In The Outsiders

#1. Collecting anything requires a singularity of focus, but 78 collecting demands an almost-inhuman level of concentration. There is a violence to the search, a dysfunctional aggression that vacillates between repellent and endearingly quirky. It's intimidating to outsiders, and it feeds on sacrifice.

Amanda Petrusich

#2. My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#3. Drawing things makes them seem more real and makes me feel more alive. It also makes me pin down and remember things - landscapes, season, weather, occasions, incidents, people - that would otherwise have melted from my memory.

David Gentleman

#4. Not a softness anywhere about me,
Only whalebone and brocade.

Amy Lowell

#5. Just like magic, each one of us had had that someone special walk into our lives and love us enough to fight for us. Life is funny that way. Fate happens, and it's better than what you had imagined in the first place.

Abbi Glines

#6. There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

Ian Gardner

#7. The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.

John Frankenheimer

#8. freshly dead popes are struck thrice on the forehead with a special silver hammer.

Mary Roach

#9. something else - nostalgia, or something similar. Dolefulness, maybe?

Charlie N. Holmberg

#10. It means I'm glad I killed him, I said, testing it. But this didn't mean anything.

It didn't mean anything, I said, dubious.

But this didn't mean anything, either.

Pablo D'Stair

#11. I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better.

Halle Berry

#12. Good," he says. "Because I'm about to fuck you like I don't.

J.M. Darhower

#13. And really, what is trust other than faith in a clever disguise?

Rick R. Reed