Twenty Boy Summer Quotes

#1. So Old Man Date Rape was number what?" she asks. "Four or five?"
"We're not counting him," I say. "This is the Twenty Boy Summer, not the Twenty Dirty Old Man Summer.

Sarah Ockler

#2. It's never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it's definitely not it.

Sean Parker

#3. There was nothing abstract or theoretical in his world. The stars had no significance. The sky was not interesting unless it showed probability of rain. He ate corn, corn, corn. He ate beans, beans, beans.

Warren Eyster

#4. They don't want to know that you'll never eat birthday cake because you don't want to erase the magical taste of frosting on his lips. That you wake up ever day wondering why you got to live and he didn't.

Sarah Ockler

#5. I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

Yvette Nicole Brown

#6. It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was ... perfect.

Sarah Ockler

#7. It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.

Sam Levenson

#8. I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I'm interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is kind of a political thing, I admit that. But it's what I'm interested in, and it's how I believe human behavior is legible.

Dana Spiotta

#9. A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.

Karen Mills

#11. When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. I can't not be who I am.

Randy Owen

#13. During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.

Peter Lynch

#14. Paul says that as Christians we can rejoice even in tough times because we have hope and because we know that God is working in our lives.

Rick Warren

#15. Real life is messy and hard and never turns out like I've imagined. Usually it's better. So, I try not to dream but rather to pray. If there is one thing I know, it's that I have no clue what I want. I'm fickle. I'm picky. And I'm scared of a lot of things. Especially commitment.

Katie Kiesler

#16. Hold these wires and make sure they don't touch."
"What happens if they touch?"
"The ship will probably self-destruct.

Marissa Meyer

#17. The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

Donna Tartt