Susan Quotes

#1. by anonymous accusations of infidelity?" I said. Susan smiled. "Fancy talk for a guy with an eighteen-inch neck," she said. "I been bopping a shrink," I said.

Robert B. Parker

#2. By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed ...

Margaret Deland

#3. One of the things that made Susan so interesting was the fact that she looked like a Jewish princess and worked like a Bulgarian peasant.

Robert B. Parker

#4. Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

Caitlin Moran

#5. Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day at numbness, silence.

Anne Lamott

#6. He do that with me, too," Susan said. "It drives me fucking crazy." "Gee," I said, "I was liking it better when we were talking about Hawk's problems." Susan smiled.

Robert B. Parker

#7. People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.

Henry Rollins

#8. Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.

Tim Robbins

#9. Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

Louise Slaughter

#10. Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

Edward Abbey

#11. I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.

Emma Donoghue

#12. He suddenly remembered the tape he had taken from Susan's answering machine, and hoped to God there wasn't anything more important in Gordon's message than ravings about rabbits.

Douglas Adams

#13. I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'

Marina Abramovic

#14. Susan laughed. I always loved the sound of her laughter. And to have caused it was worth the west side of heaven.

Robert B. Parker

#15. I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.

Morgan Brittany

#16. He looks like a man.'
'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist.

Julia Quinn

#17. Eric and Susan Benson didn't come to Amazon alone every day - they brought their dog Rufus, a Welsh corgi.

Brad Stone

#18. SUSAN AND I made love at her house, we had to shut Pearl the wonder dog out of the bedroom, because if we didn't, Pearl would attempt tirelessly to insinuate herself between us. Neither

Robert B. Parker

#19. Was a new family in the manse. And such a family! Miss Cornelia shook her head over them several times as she walked briskly along. Susan Baker

L.M. Montgomery

#20. One of the inspiring things about Susan Sarandon career is that there's a quality of real fearlessness in it - you seem to be in it for the challenge and the experience.

George Saunders

#21. Susan Carol had arrived at the stadium with Bobby Kelleher and Tamara Mearns

John Feinstein

#22. Susan told me on the way out," Hawk said, "how you been spreading your charm around town and now they ready to lynch your ass."
"Charm can only carry you so far," I said.

Robert B. Parker

#23. None of us ate together: my Aunt Gladys ate at five o'clock, my cousin Susan at five-thirty, me at six, and my uncle at six-thirty. There is nothing to explain this beyond the fact that my aunt is crazy.

Philip Roth

#24. For a woman who can handle herself so well in a fight, I can't believe you got taken out by a defenseless doorjamb. (Ravyn)
Given the size of my goose egg, I would argue the defenseless part. That doorjamb has a mean left hook.(Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. I was born a heretic. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Susan B. Anthony, U.S. reformer and suffragist

George Washington

#26. Susan was sensible. It was, she knew, a major character flaw.

Terry Pratchett

#27. If I give Susan a new Cuisinart then she'll be happy ... If she's thankful to me, my life will be better ... she will do something for me.

Frederick Lenz

#28. I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

Jacki Weaver

#29. 13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands.
13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

Zadie Smith

#30. Thus I did with Susan as with most other things in my earlier days, dipping her image into my mind and coloring it of a thousand fantastic hues, before I could see her as she really was.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#31. If looks could have killed, Susan would have been bleeding profusely from the forehead.

Julia Quinn

#32. Names I am most commonly called by telemarketers: Simone, Slain, Siobhan, Flo, Stacey, Susan, Slater, Leanne, and Slow (Yes, my parents named me "Slow". That's because they hate me and made me sleep in the linen closet subsisting only on bath salts and Scope).

Sloane Crosley

#33. God, the name Susan is so ugly. It reminds me of the word sinus.

Bret Easton Ellis

#34. "My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain ... "

Charles Dickens

#35. In Dark Places,
May we Never be truly Alone.....
~Susan Schroder, Circle the Sun books

Susan Schroder

#36. Writers survive within pages. This is a gift from a writer to a reader. Regeneration by pure esoteric thought." - Susan Marie

Susan Marie

#37. Analogy," Susan said. "Hawk's world is not like anyone else's." I nodded. "So asking Hawk about Thanksgiving is like asking a fish about a bicycle," Susan said.

Robert B. Parker

#38. Just keep the shirt clean," Susan muttered. "No problem. I can wipe my fingers on the cummerbund.

Jim Butcher

#39. I'm assuming those are Daimons. (Susan)
No, they're Avon ladies. (Ravyn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#40. Christmas dinner? At Susan's?" I nodded. "We could call it a Kwanzaa dinner, if that would improve your mood.

Robert B. Parker

#41. Mostly I thought about Susan with her clothes off. This would solve nearly any problem I had,

Robert B. Parker

#42. What will you do?" said Susan. "Lie," said Lu-Tze happily. "It's amazing how often that works.

Terry Pratchett

#43. She's in that show on the CW, what's it called, Uncovered? She plays a teenage hooker." "A hooker?" Stevie said. "A teenager?" Susan Carol said. "That woman plays a teenager? You're kidding, right?

John Feinstein

#44. Punctuality was not Susan's strength. She always intended to be on time, but she seemed to have some kind of chronometric dyslexia, which thwarted her intent, nearly always.

Robert B. Parker

#45. Full of magick and desire ... Lydia Dare casts a spell on her readers! - Susan at Love Romance Passion

Lydia Dare

#46. And he thought that, had he been wearing his guns, he might well have drawn one and put a bullet in Susan Delgado's cold and whoring little heart.

Stephen King

#47. Susan Boynton mug. "I will," Birdie said, smiling. "Haven't you already read this?" he asked,

Nan Rossiter

#48. Meanwhile, Susan looked carefully into each of our faces. She was actually waiting for us to answer, to give reasons why people fall in love and get married. Nobody knows, I wanted to say. Nobody really knows. But that doesn't mean you're allowed to not do it.

Rebecca Lee

#49. Susan, who has an avoidant attachment style, ... sees need as a weakness and looks down on people who become dependent on their partner,

Amir Levine

#50. Hey hey Susan Day have you killed any kids today?

Stephen King

#51. I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and heartbreakingly real at the same time. I don't know how she does it.

Julia Quinn

#52. Were-Hunters are different from humans. (Ravyn)
You mean other than the fact that you live for several hundred years, can turn into animals, time travel, and wave your hand to make freaky stuff happen? (Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#53. I read someplace that wanting to know everything about a person is wanting to possess them." "I believe that is probably true," Susan said.

Robert B. Parker

#54. The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her.

Gail Collins

#55. Susan came down the hall in a white dress that fit her well. She looked like she was receiving an Academy Award for stunningness. I

Robert B. Parker

#56. Vision will not guarantee success, but it will point you in the right direction and keep you from wandering into the kinds of relationships that you never intended to have. SUSAN

Debra Fileta

#57. I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame.

Meg Cabot

#58. My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.

Whitney Houston

#59. I was doing curls. Hawk said, "How you and Susan doing?" "Love is lovelier," I said, "the second time around." "Worth the scramble," Hawk said.

Robert B. Parker

#60. There was another occupant of the living-room, curled up on a couch, who must not be overlooked, since he was a creature of marked individuality, and, moreover, had the distinction of being the only living thing whom Susan really hated.

L.M. Montgomery

#61. Observing that we have waged wars on poverty and drugs as well as cancer, Susan Sontag writes, "Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in

Eula Biss

#62. Love need not be denied, only placed where it rightfully belongs." - Susan Marie

Susan Marie

#63. This place is so Cambridge," Susan said, "it gives me goose bumps." "Cambridge give you goose bumps?" I said to Hawk. "Hives," Hawk said.

Robert B. Parker

#64. In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

Harpo Marx

#65. My aunt is a famous L.A. chef, Susan Feniger, and she's got Street and Border Grill. So a fun night out for me is to go to my aunt's restaurants.

Ben Feldman

#66. Gareth raked her with a nasty glare. "What are you? A fucking lawyer?"
Susan:"Worse. Reporter.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#67. Failure is Impossible."--Susan B. Anthony in The Renegade Queen

Eva Flynn

#68. When we settled in to eat, Susan said, "So, tell me about it." "You shrinks are always so cocksure," I said. "Nice word choice," Susan said. "In the current context.

Robert B. Parker

#69. In anthropology, things were mostly Stone Age: Yanomamo, Mbuti, !Kung - Susan once had it in her mind to learn how it had been before it all got fucked up, but soon tossed the notion, concluding that things have never been not fucked up. [-'Jonah Sees Ghosts']

Mark J. Sullivan III

#70. Unfortunately, Susan was not the only one who noticed Ricky's eyes on her; Patty was growing increasingly frustrated by his failure to respond to her overtures, or the reason

Brianne E. Pryor

#71. The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.

Dick Ebersol

#72. Susan was already rehearsing excuses in case she was caught: I just got my period and I was looking for a tissue to stuff in my underpants. Men didn't question menstruation stories. Ever. You could probably get into the White House if you said you needed a tampon ASAP.

Chelsea Cain

#73. As a writer and as a human being, Susan Dworkin has always had the
ability to draw us into new dreams of justice, and to make them
irresistibly practical, humorous and human. She makes clear that
progress and pleasure go together.

Gloria Steinem

#74. Politicians.Their first thoughts are always with the loved ones of the British serviceman tragically killed in action.
And whether they'll vote New Labour at the next election.
There's no need to be cynical, Susan.
Why not?
You've got me there.

William Donaldson

#75. Out of your world perhaps, Susan - but not out of mine,' said Anne with a faint smile.

L.M. Montgomery

#76. With no gods to pray to, Susan prayed to her father.

Stephen King

#77. Susan Bordo's Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.

Susan Griffin

#78. The Reverend John Knox Meredith, Mrs. Dr. dear," said Susan, resolved not to let Miss Cornelia tell all the news. "Is

L.M. Montgomery

#79. Susan was on the West Coast with a guy friend. That was the bad news. The

Robert B. Parker

#80. This spicy historical will steal your breath, and capture your heart.
-Susan Sigler, Love Romance Passion

Terry Spear

#81. Fuck you, human. (Phoenix)
Wow, boys and girls, they're just so inviting, aren't they. Martha Stewart would be proud. (Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#82. Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.

Debby Applegate

#83. I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.

Kate Baldwin

#84. Words can," Susan said. "And tone of voice. You're just so goddamned autonomous that you won't explain yourself to anybody.

Robert B. Parker

#85. You know the legend. Stab them in the heart and they'll die. (Ravyn)
Call me Buffy. I'm even blond, but don't ask me to wear a halter top. Or corset. (Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#86. Susan had never before come across the idea that you could rise in Society by, as it were, gaining marks, especially since such noblemen as she'd met in her father's house had used neither serviette nor napkin but a state of mind, which was Drop it on the floor, the dogs'll eat it.

Terry Pratchett

#87. Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'

Caitlin Moran

#88. I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!

Laetitia Casta

#89. There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person pre-determined to dislike, acknowledge one's superiority.
- Lady Susan

Jane Austen

#90. The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

Douglas Adams

#91. Perhaps the One knows
that if I travel without anything else to rely on, I'll learn to rely more
deeply on Him. (Susan Mitchell in THE DELIVERER)

Sharon Hinck

#92. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers

Jack Canfield

#93. IN MY EXPERIENCE, SUSAN, WITHIN THEIR HEADS TOO MANY HUMANS SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN THE MIDDLE OF WARS THAT HAPPENED CENTURIES AGO.

Terry Pratchett

#94. This is no common day, Mrs. Dr. dear," she said solemnly.

"Oh, Susan, there is no such thing as a common day. EVERY day has something about it no other day has. Haven't you noticed?

L.M. Montgomery

#95. You'll always be beautiful to me, no matter how old you are, and you can remind me of that when you're ninety, because if I'm still around I know I'll still feel the same.'
-Forgotten, Susan Lewis

Susan Lewis

#96. It was 10:45. Across the continent Susan would be putting on her makeup now, and spraying some perfume on herself and making sure her hair was perfect. I looked at my reflection in the window. My hair wasn't perfect. Neither was I.

Robert B. Parker

#97. To be looked at by Susan, naked, with those eyes, over a glass of pink champagne, was all I knew on earth, and all I had to know.

Robert B. Parker

#98. Life is not about surviving the storms, but learning to dance in the rain, Susan.

Annie Nicholas

#99. Why must every relationship I have be so damned impossible? (Ravyn)
Hey now, defeatist talk from a catman like you? I'm the one who should be freaking out here. I mean, damn, you could give me fleas or something. (Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#100. Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

Louise Slaughter