Spaulding's Quotes

#1. Write about the cow, Mrs. Spaulding's heavy eyelids, the smell of vanilla flavoring in a brown bottle. That's where the magic mountains begin.

Sylvia Plath

#2. Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

Amartya Sen

#3. Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization ...

Greg Bear

#4. John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with.

Polly Bergen

#5. I'm just not very good at glamour ... It doesn't come easily to me.

Elize Du Toit

#6. "I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

George Shearing

#8. If I were to sit normally, my deductive skills will immediately be reduced by roughly 40%
-L

Tsugumi Ohba

#9. I find a lot of comfort and peace just being outdoors. Whether on a beach or on a path near our house, I would walk for an hour or two, just alone with my own head to think things through.

Meredith Vieira

#10. Because the rubber, too, is bulletproof. And so relentless is the wind that it rakes the street, pushing along this burden of crippled vermin, trundling this tide of suffering always in the wake of the Town Car as it reaches Spaulding Square. Fissures of lightning

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. Well, I have come back, angel. And I'm very anxious to pick up right where I left off. Let's see, where was that? Your bedroom, I believe. Ah, that's right. Your bed. And let's see, just how were we situated?

Heather Graham

#12. I want more. I want everything. I want you."
"Nathan ... "
"I'm not settling for less, Whitley," he said. "And neither should you.

Kody Keplinger

#13. I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really explain how bad it was.

Reginald Arvizu

#14. Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

Mark Doty

#15. Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

Roald Dahl

#16. As Samuel Spaulding, Esquire, once said, 'Dig in the earth, delve in the soul.' Spin those mower blades, Bill, and walk in the spray of the Fountain of Youth. End of lecture. Besides, a mess of dandelion greens is good eating once in a while.

Ray Bradbury