Shooter Walter Dean Myers Quotes

#1. It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#2. In sports, championships often define a person's legacy.

Don Yaeger

#3. She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight.
perhaps the best line from Shooter

Walter Dean Myers

#4. That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.

Azar Nafisi

#5. Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Ayn Rand

#6. Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers probing parts you never though you could probably probe - Gray

Walter Dean Myers

#7. God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.

William Wilberforce

#8. As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Billy Joel

#9. Group nudity could also be personally beneficial, according to psychologist Abraham M. Maslow, who believed that nudist camps or parks might be places where people can emerge from hiding behind their clothes and armor, and become more self-accepting, revealing, and honest.

Gay Talese

#10. Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

Uta Hagen

#11. It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Richard Whately

#12. So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep.

Shelby Harris

#13. The accretion of tiny marvels can numb us to the arrival of the stupendous.

Kevin Kelly

#14. I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.

Paullina Simons

#15. If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.

John Steinbeck

#16. The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God's grace.

Elizabeth Prentiss