Center Quotes

1632 Center quotes by 1240 unique authors

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to family values are… — Susan Sontag
A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen… — James Frey
Last time I really got to know myself it turned out there was a whole gang of bitches in there to deal with. I felt… — Christopher Moore
But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things… — Barbara Kingsolver
Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with a blue and… — James A. Owen
Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more — Philip Roth
The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first… — Haruki Murakami
pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the… — Charles Bukowski
The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his… — Andre Breton
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.… — John Donne
During intermission she peeked out at the theater, watching it refill. When it was almost full and the lights blinked on and off, she saw… — Ann Brashares
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody… — May Sarton
The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he… — Sherman Alexie
I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to.… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like a… — Tony Hoagland
Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our… — Jonathan Franzen
The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time… — Elwyn Brooks White
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if… — Libba Bray
All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll… — Annie Dillard
Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out. — Terry Tempest Williams
Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a… — Neil Gaiman
Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you… — Anne Lamott
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real… — Anne Lamott
If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic… — William S. Burroughs

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