Figures Quotes

2652 quotes by 1970 authors

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth.… — Anne Lamott
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let… — Philip K. Dick
There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their… — Ben Okri
For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a… — Rebecca Solnit
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers… — W. Somerset Maugham
I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even… — Graham Greene
I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they… — Robin Wasserman
But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory.… — Alejandra Pizarnik
Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and believe in the 'what — Jack Canfield
On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed.… — Junot Diaz
From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn… — Sherwood Anderson
So softly Lizzy has to lean over to hear me, I say, 'I can't face the world until I know why I'm here.' You're kidding… — Wendy Mass
I don't know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out. — Aaron Allston
It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than… — E. Lockhart
I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to… — Donald Miller
When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you… — Jodi Picoult
What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for… — Jeanette Winterson
Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them. Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn't tell what it… — Patricia Briggs
When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap. — Mason Cooley

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