Zipese Quotes

#1. When our lives are frantic and frenzied, we are more prone to anxiety, resentment, impatience, and irritability.

Kevin DeYoung

#2. If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.

Gertrude Stein

#3. [Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

Chinua Achebe

#4. All good poems are victories over something.

Stephen Dunn

#5. That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.

R.D. Ronald

#6. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

J.D. Salinger

#7. Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.

Maxim Gorky

#8. Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

Alma Gluck

#9. I've gone from a two-pitch guy to a four-pitch guy.

Tim Lincecum

#10. Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

Henry Vaughan

#11. Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.

Sandra Cisneros

#12. The Lincoln Building, Mark tells himself. Get there; then you can go find your family.

James Dashner

#13. You're my lifeline, he whispers, and he kisses my knuckles before pressing my palm against his.

E.L. James

#14. Its amazing the delusion of being watched and expressing its exquisite beauty both illusions lies in the same jar.

Anonymous