Whittell George Quotes

#1. How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.

Jerry Stahl

#2. I build boxes
and place them at your feet,
to measure the distance
between dreams and reality.

Jessica Kristie

#3. In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.

Thomas Hobbes

#4. My goodness carina mia, you are so thin. You do not eat enough. Mangia, mangia, mangia! [Alicia's Italian mother's view of her daughter.]

Celia Conrad

#5. Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

Pearl S. Buck

#6. Now finish what you started or I'll show you how mean I can be." My eyes drifted down her body. "I do like that tight little ass of yours."

"You wouldn't."


"You should know better by now.

Teresa Mummert

#7. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like.

Truman Capote

#8. Most wonderful things are unconscious.

Agnes Denes

#9. That's where spiritual warfare begins - leaving our own methods of filling our gaping holes at the well and allowing Jesus to fill every thirsty, needy place with His Living Water.

Mary E. DeMuth

#10. Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.

Bernard Lietaer