Sobering Def Quotes

#1. Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

Suzanne Collins

#2. Opening her eyes, she looked right at him. She saw her life, her heart echoed in his eyes, and she burst in a kaleidoscope of colors and emotion, unlike anything she'd ever felt.

Jill Shalvis

#3. When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think.

N.H. Kleinbaum

#4. I feel like you can do all the research in the world, but when you start putting that costume on, put your hair in a wig and walk into those sets, that's where the visceral reaction is. It's no longer in the head. It's in the body.

Anastasia Griffith

#5. There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare

Haile Selassie

#6. Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

Benjamin Haydon

#7. They import and they consume reality.

Robinson Jeffers

#8. Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.

Lisa Scottoline

#9. I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.

Susan Fletcher

#10. Think you I am no stronger than my own sex being so father'd and husbanded?

William Shakespeare

#11. When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part of magic for me these days is not having to do it for a living. It's being able to pull a trick out when people least expect it, when they don't know that you do magic.

Steve Valentine

#12. Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time there's a lot of things in life where you say to yourself, well, if this is God's plan, it's very peculiar. And you have to wonder about that guy's personality, the big guy's personality.

Stephen King

#13. Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

Daniel Keyes

#14. A boy standing in the rain, and what is he thinking?

Joe Sacco

#15. When wombats do inspire/I strike my disused lyre

Christina Rossetti