Rocklike Quotes

#1. Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservations, letting its rocklike facts sift through and be accepted only a little at a time, only as much as he could assimilate without a sense of chaos and loss.

John Knowles

#2. Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Gloria Steinem

#3. Everything may evaporate at any instant. Everything!' I said with surprising vehemence. 'You, me, the most rocklike personality since Calving Coolidge; death, destruction, despair may strike. To live your life assuming otherwise is insanity.

Luke Rhinehart

#4. Our betrayals, our jealousies, our fears, they rise no higher than the tops of our heads.

Rick Yancey

#5. Few things worth having can be got easily.

Mark Lawrence

#6. We respect the freedom of all citizens. Young people should have fun, but there is no tolerance of drug abuse. Drugs have become a serious problem in Vietnam. This is why we have very strict penalties for any sort of drug dealing.

Nguyen Minh Triet

#7. Sometimes she looked so beautiful he couldn't believe she had anything to do with him. He could barely believe she existed at all. "But

Lev Grossman

#8. Hearing that people read my books when they were sick, or that the books helped them find an escape when they were having a hard time ... stuff like that makes all the hard work pay off.

Sarah J. Maas

#9. Reincarnation?"
He shrugged. "I've never seen any evidence that it's real. But I've never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here - and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.

Patricia Briggs

#10. It wasn't pretty, that much was true. But it looked like an ending. Neat. Complete.

Stephen Collins

#11. Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I ... I guess I've had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium.

Marc Guggenheim

#12. Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

Claude Lelouch

#13. But time," added Shaya, "is not that rigid. In dreams, worlds meet, and time means little.

Travis King

#14. The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

Therese Fowler

#15. My fellow citizens, the state of our city is strong.

Thomas Menino

#16. I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up.

Jordan Peele