Thanksgiving Reflective Quotes

#1. Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.

Savielly Tartakower

#2. I have the kind of show that reminds you of your problems, and then I talk about other problems you didn't even know you had until tonight.

Doug Stanhope

#3. I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.

Joanna Trollope

#4. Lovely ceremony, gorgeous bride. Take care of her." Troy brushed his thumb over his lips, scanning my body like it was dessert.

L.J. Shen

#5. Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

Ethel Waters

#6. Teatime put a comforting arm around his shoulders. "Don't worry," he said. "I'm on your side. A violent death is the last thing that'll happen to you.

Terry Pratchett

#7. I want to kiss the bottom of the ocean before I burst through its surface into the sunlight. Otherwise I'll always be wondering about what was left unseen at the bottom.

Carol Lee

#8. Your ability to name every single variation of Kryptonite and every first issue in which it appears is a great pop quiz skill, but is not a great writing skill, all right? So just because you can do that doesn't mean you know how to write.

Greg Rucka

#9. GOD GIVES US ONLY WHAT WE CAN HANDLE. APPARENTLY, GOD THINKS I'M A BADASS. - BUMPER STICKER

Darynda Jones

#10. The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.

Anna Quindlen

#11. England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it.

Wole Soyinka

#12. Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#13. Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

Mary Shelley