Remarque Systems Quotes

#1. Her prettiness was factual and obvious, the way a flag was patriotic or a puppy was cute - not an interesting prettiness, but also not contingent on taste.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#2. How did you survive?" I asked. My question caught him off guard, and his hand curled around the dice. He gave a cautious shrug. "The grace of God, I suppose.

Megan Shepherd

#3. The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

Arthur Miller

#4. I would far rather get to be ninety years old and look back and say, "I tried my damnedest" to succeed, rather than get to be ninety and think, "I wonder what would have happened if only I had done something different.
Katie's character, Julia's Chocolates

Cathy Lamb

#5. I visualize my hand raised at the end, and every thing in between is just having fun.

Jessica Penne

#6. The years pass so quickly now that I can't keep my mental image of myself up to date. [Mature Dotsy deals with her age]

Maria Hudgins

#7. Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?

Marc Chagall

#8. People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.

Meghan Daum

#9. Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh