Top 66 Silber Quotes
#1. Do you know why the characters in my book look like us?"
"Pure coincidence?" he asked with a smile.
"Because I was fantasizing about us doing all those things together when I wrote it."
"Are you trying to make me cry?
N.M. Silber
#2. Fine. Will you thrust your turgid manroot into my dewy petals?
N.M. Silber
#3. There is a kind of transaction that occurs between a person and a place: you give the place something and it gives you something in return. In years to come, Hodel would know for certain not only what Nerchinsk had taken, but what it had given her as well.
Alexandra Silber
#4. Gabrielle?"
"Yes?"
"I also like you." I wanted to throw down my phone, jog the two blocks and throw myself into his arms.
"Yeah, well I like you too even if you do put my clients in jail. See you later Mr. Prosecutor."
"See you later Ms. Saucy Mouth.
N.M. Silber
#5. The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.
John Silber
#6. Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don't think I could stand it!
Kathleen Silber
#8. I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex.
N.M. Silber
#9. He loved her. He loved her because nature willed it. Because they were already united and of one body. The bare flesh on every part of her belonged to him. The scent emitting from her skin was his.
Alexandra Silber
#10. The good we do.
How much we create.
The respect we bestow.
How hard we love - no one gets to vote on these.
Alexandra Silber
#12. I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has been a fantastic journey.
Ronnie Apteker
#13. I hated giving out free legal advice at parties, but at that moment, I would have drafted her will in crayon on a cocktail napkin ...
N.M. Silber
#14. Do you want to fuck me, Adam?" I asked through gritted teeth.
"Is this a trick question?
N.M. Silber
#15. So, in the end, we were hypocrites for kindness. Both of us. Standing with my bouquet of orange blossoms, I thought: I'm happy but I'm in disguise. But probably many people feel that at their weddings.
Joan Silber
#16. Oh God! Oh God! Oh God!" "Oh, who?" he asked, pausing. "Oh Adam?" "That's more like it.
N.M. Silber
#17. Length is weight in fiction, pretty much.
Joan Silber
#19. Jesus, Gabrielle! Are you having a seizure?!"
"Please please please can I keep him mom? I promise I'll take care of him! Oh baby, I'll take care of him!"
"Good lord. She's finally gone around the bend. Can I have your Manolos when they come to take you away?
N.M. Silber
#20. Open source is important to our orgs as a talent pool; we need better representation of women.
Jane Silber
#21. Hodel saw it through her sister's eyes: women were created to be in every way partners, not mindless slaves or brainless doormats, but helpers, collaborators, equals. And that was a thing of great beauty
Alexandra Silber
#22. I want more than a one-nighter with a meal plan.
N.M. Silber
#23. Difference between diversity and inclusion is being invited to a house and being able to rearrange the furniture.
Jane Silber
#24. You've slept with Gabrielle?" Adam asked. "You haven't slept with her too, have you, Mark?"
"No!" Mark answered.
"Good, or I would have felt really left out.
N.M. Silber
#25. I was incapable of producing
anything coherent at the moment so
rather than throwing out some witty
banter in response I said something like
"Ohgaahaad" instead. Feel free to quote
me.
N.M. Silber
#26. I'm going to write a book about an intelligent woman who does stupid things when it comes to men. I'll call it, "My Memoirs.
N.M. Silber
#27. For now, I look to God, for I know He will respond to my questions. For I believe, in the deepest part of my heart, that He shall truly bring us into a frame of mind where we may hear His greatest responses . . . Perhaps not the final answers, but at the very least, the next response we need.
Alexandra Silber
#28. I wanted to develop some hobbies. So far, I hadn't really developed any, but I did have a growing collection of empty wine bottles. That could be a hobby. And I had bookmarked several articles on making your own soap. In case, you know, soap ever wasn't readily available.
N.M. Silber
#29. Success is not about what you do, it's about you feel about what you do.
Alexandra Silber
#30. Volcker relied on public opinion, integrity, and persistence to overcome the political pressure to finance government spending the easy way, by printing money rather than by taxation.
William L. Silber
#31. The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth parents punished and banished from a place in his life.
Kathleen Silber
#32. [S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not standing still, on the built-in condition of impermanence.
Joan Silber
#33. A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.
Joan Silber
#34. What else can I tell you? From the very first moment that I held him, I loved him and felt he was mine. Each day that I wake up and look at him, I can hardly believe it. Our love for him grows stronger each day and we enjoy watching him develop.
Kathleen Silber
#35. I need to get out more. I'm sniffing the prosecutors.
N.M. Silber
#36. Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.
John Silber
#37. Hold on to your sense of wonder; if you do not have a sufficiently strong one, then develop it. For me, it is the most precious resource in the world.
Arthur Silber Jr.
#38. Men in particular need to speak more about their personal reasons for wanting diversity in the workplace.
Jane Silber
#39. Just flirt with him and see what happens - those were famous last words if I ever heard them.
N.M. Silber
#40. This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.
Joan Silber
#41. You don't know what you're going to be faithful to in this world, do you? It was true I didn't have what other people had, I knew that, and yet I couldn't think of a single other life I envied - no, I couldn't - though I knew better than to try to get anyone to believe it.
Joan Silber
#42. One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives in the search of truths that are irrelevant to them.
John Silber
#43. Hey baby, do you want to hold my Whopper?
N.M. Silber
#44. I'm not adorable," I said, feeling unreasonably irritated. "Chipmunks are adorable. I'm empowered.
N.M. Silber
#45. Well, we need to make sure we don't frighten him off. We'll approach him very slowly and speak in quiet gentle tones. Put on some nice perfume and let him sniff you.
N.M. Silber
#46. Creativity is fragile; if you don't nurture it, it can die, leaving you recycling old ideas and pretending they're fresh. It's a sure road to mediocrity.
Lee Silber
#47. Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.
N.M. Silber
#48. A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means.
Joan Silber
#49. If you saw through everything, it made it hard to figure out what to do with yourself.
Joan Silber
#51. While we must always strive to grow beyond those who come before us, we must revere and learn from those that broke the ground originally, endeavor to honor their legacy, and then continue in our own vision.
Alexandra Silber
#52. Mr. Harris had three boxes of Melba toast, a can of smoked oysters, a wheel of Gouda cheese, two bunches of grapes, a package of smoked salmon, a can of sardines, a bottle of sparkling grape juice and a can of cocktail weenies in his pants. I simply ask you to please use common sense. Thank you.
N.M. Silber
#53. Ms. Ginsberg. I wonder if you can help me. I have a legal question," Felicity Mason said. Great. I hated giving out free legal advice at parties, but at that moment, I would have drafted her will in crayon on a cocktail napkin to get away from Cole.
N.M. Silber
#54. I just tried one where my client claimed he was urinating in a back alley. Turns out he was jerking off on a street corner. The prosecution had twenty-one witnesses. They were nuns." She looked pained.
"I understand," I said gently, patting her on the back.
N.M. Silber
#55. Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important.
Joan Silber
#56. Passion was part of what made us human. I wanted to be more than just a lawyer. I wanted to be a human too!
N.M. Silber
#57. Holy freaking moly! Harvard really was well endowed!
N.M. Silber
#58. I want to have hot, sweaty, monkey sex with you. Okay, perhaps that's too candid.
N.M. Silber
#59. Daddy? We're the parents of a Chihuahua?" "You never know what the future holds. It would be good practice." "For when we had puppies?
N.M. Silber
#60. The gospel preached during every television show is 'You only go around once in life, so get all the gusto you can.' It is a statement about theology; it is a statement about beer. It's lousy beer and even worse theology.
John Silber
#61. Since we have had this baby with us, I have never again wondering why I never got pregnant. There is no doubt in my mind that God, in His wonderful way, was saving us to be the parents of this wonderful little boy.
Kathleen Silber
#62. Many Americans celebrate both Christmas and Xmas. Others celebrate one or the other. And some of us celebrate holidays that, although unconnected with the [winter] solstice, occur near it: Ramadan, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
John Silber
#63. And life can have its way with me. It won't break me. Neither you nor me. That determined faith in our own resilience is our only weapon against the cynical, the weak, those who talk of honor but do not practice the word they so loudly and vigorously screech.
Alexandra Silber
#64. And this is your close friend, Drew?" he asked looking at Mark...
"Good buddy... Just hanging out here. Doing guy stuff."
"Talking about women. And sports. And beer. And uh..." Mark added.
"Condoms," Drew added and I rolled my eyes. Brilliant.
N.M. Silber
#65. Remember: it is not about what happens to you, but what you choose to DO WITH what happens to you that truly defines who you are.
Alexandra Silber
#66. The music came on and I was amused to hear Pitbull singing Mr. Right Now.
N.M. Silber
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