Semipermeable Objects Quotes

#1. I even get tired performing standup, which is normally a low-impact exercise in futility but looks hard the way I do it. That's why I take a lot of breaks, often stopping in the middle of a joke to catch my breath, or blame the crowd for not laughing before the punchline.

Andy Kindler

#2. You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.

Carrie Fisher

#3. A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories.

Bentley Little

#4. Speeding in to blow us out of the sky? As we travel over District 12, I watch anxiously for signs of an attack, but nothing pursues us. After several minutes, when I hear an exchange between Plutarch and the pilot confirming that the airspace is clear, I begin to

Suzanne Collins

#5. I grew up poor, but I didn't have poor dreams

Magic Johnson

#6. Did you send candy and flowers on Valentine's Day, Wells? It's okay, you know. He was a saint.

Richard Kadrey

#7. Tigerkit! Have you been eavesdropping again? Tawnypelt glared at her dark tabby kit, but it was easy to see the fondness in her eyes.

Erin Hunter

#8. I can't live without scissors. I don't have any tattoos, but I thought if I ever got a tattoo, it should probably be scissors.

Rebecca Ward

#9. Harry nearly prayed it wasn't one of her friends who smelled like the beach and books and brine. He inhaled when they stopped for the light, and was simultaneously relieved and agitated to realize, no, it was her.

Paullina Simons

#10. Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive." "That's a lie." "No. It's just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

Orson Scott Card

#11. One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?

Roger Ebert