The Contender By Robert Lipsyte Quotes

#1. Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner.

Steven Levenkron

#2. Shopping and buying and getting and having comprise the Great American Addiction. No one is immune. When the underclass riots in this country they don't kill policemen and politicians, they steal merchandise. How embarrassing.

George Carlin

#3. I have a dark sense of humor,' Fanny explained.
'What's that supposed to mean?' asked Honor.
'It means I'm funny once you get to know me,' Fanny said.

Allegra Goodman

#4. In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

John Rogers Searle

#5. I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

Solomon Northup

#6. But it's a Broadway show, so even if you're Christine in Phantom, you're still a princess. All female leads are princesses whether they're Disney princesses or not.

Christy Romano

#7. True ambition is trying to paint yourself out of a corner

Josh Stern

#8. We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

Ernest Gaines

#9. Lunar Geology Rocks.

Homer Hickam