Swiveling Chairs Quotes

#1. The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#2. Too many of us leave our lives - and, in fact, our souls - behind when we go to work.

Arianna Huffington

#3. I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.

Kate Grenville

#4. Sometimes the problem outshines the pain.

Greg Bear

#5. Cancer changes your life," a patient wrote after her mastectomy. "It alters your habits. ... Everything becomes magnified.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#6. I swear to God, Gabriel, if you don't stop, I will lose it. I will go to the bathroom and pull a Britney in the middle of your acceptance speech.

Claire Contreras

#7. If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#8. Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

Ally Carter

#9. What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.

Ingrid Betancourt

#10. Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#11. You know what you like. You know what you want. So all you have to do is find some work related to that stuff.

Novala Takemoto

#12. I've always wanted to hunt another human being for sport, even though I know his fear will taint the taste of the meat.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#13. Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

Jerry Bridges

#14. My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

Larry Bishop