Westerhout Book Quotes

#1. Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess, Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.

Margaret Atwood

#2. One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#3. While the ghettos may have their share of violence and crime, the posh suburbs are home to more subtle demonic forces
numbness, complacency and comfort. These are the powers that can eat away at our souls.

Shane Claiborne

#4. Sometimes it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.

Anonymous

#5. 'La Lupe' is my passion project. I've done it as a one-woman show, but I'm raising money to turn it into a film. It's a story of a Cuban singer who became the Queen of Latin Soul, the first woman on the N.Y. salsa scene.

Lauren Velez

#6. This dull, difficult novel I have brought with me on my trip - I keep trying to read it. I have gone back to it so many times, each time dreading it and each time finding it no better than the last time, that by now it has become something of an old friend. My old friend the bad novel.

Lydia Davis

#7. A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Horace

#8. NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.

Carson Daly

#9. Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Kathleen Hanna

#10. Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

Henry David Thoreau

#11. She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. Your character is your fate.

Maya Plisetskaya

#13. Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants.

Carolyn Hart