Wintergirls Audiobook Quotes

#1. I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.

Steven Johnson

#2. I want to seem put together in front of a person who earns a living trying to help me get all the pieces back together.

Hannah Brencher

#3. Suddenly, she burst out, "I want to punch her evil, lying face."
Liam caught a flash of hot gold as Dad looked at them, narrow-eyed, in the rearview mirror. Dad said, completely seriously, "I can make that happen.

Thea Harrison

#4. Do you know why they [demons] hate us so much, Alfred? Because of hope.

They have none, and so they hate us for it.

Rick Yancey

#5. I feel like we're stuck in the former mode of reacting because that's what gains traction in Washington. But I really believe we need a robust public good argument. Net neutrality is not just about creating the next Instagram or Farmville or whatever.

Astra Taylor

#6. Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get.

Iain M. Banks

#7. Time comes in waves here, a sickness, one
day after the other rolling on;
I move up, it's called
awake, then down into the uneasy
nights but never
forward.

Margaret Atwood

#8. I confess to the trees, priests of dreams.

Gwen Calvo

#9. A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

Helmut Jahn

#10. I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#11. Do the Difficult and Uncomfortable If You Would Like an Easy and Comfortable Life.

Ernie J Zelinski

#12. Now 'pay equity' has everything to do with pay and nothing to do with equity. It's based on the vague notion of 'equal pay for work of equal value,' which is not the same as equal pay for the same job.

Stephen Harper

#13. Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

Jim Rohn

#14. The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.

Arlene Raven

#15. Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.

Ayn Rand