Retrofits Lights Quotes

#1. Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.

Emma Donoghue

#2. Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.

Albert Brooks

#3. My mom fed us a lot of processed food when we were kids, like chicken fingers, grilled cheese sandwiches and quesadillas. I make those treats for my family, too, but I use organic cheeses and whole wheat bread and tortillas.

Kourtney Kardashian

#4. It was hard enough to drive those heavy old cars back then under normal circumstances, but with a crazed monkey clawing you at the same time, it becomes nearly impossible!

Tim Flock

#5. I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.

James Frey

#6. All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

Berthold Auerbach

#7. What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real.

Ian MacKaye

#8. God is the Creator and the Giver of life, and the life that He gives does not run dry.

Brenton Brown

#9. We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

Thomas Merton

#10. We are trying to live
as if we were an experiment
conducted by the future

Marge Piercy

#11. For every teenager I know, having a phone is a mixed blessing, because your parents can press a button and figure out where you are.

Daniel Handler

#12. It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

James Thurber

#13. My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.

Goran Ivanisevic

#14. Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland.

Marc Cohn