Starching Doilies Quotes

#1. Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

Mickey Mantle

#2. In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

Cyril Cusack

#3. While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.

Damon Galgut

#4. Maybe the reason we like stories so much is because they deliver wish fulfillment. Maybe we sit in the dark and shovel sugar into our mouths because in so many stories everything is made right, and we secretly long for that ourselves.

Donald Miller

#5. When you really love someone, you see all their mess and their brokenness and you love them anyway. In fact, seeing all of that sort of makes you love them more.

Heather Hepler

#6. The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

Aesop Rock

#7. Of all the evil man can do, the greatest is doing nothing.

Jury Nel

#8. Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.

Mattie Stepanek

#9. Sometimes we think we are moving randomly. But random behavior is rare in humans. We are always spiraling around something, whether we see it or not, a secret center of gravity with the invisible power of a black hole.

Greg Iles

#10. We're all going to die, Johnny. Hit the iron bell like it's dinnertime.

Cheryl Strayed

#11. It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

Jerry Saltz

#12. Men don't understand discretion. My goal is to survive on my weakest abilities. That saves other talents for when I really need them and doesn't reveal important skills to any idiot who might be watching.

Amanda Bouchet

#13. Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

Plato

#14. We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

Paul Goodman

#15. I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff.

Linda Ronstadt