Life Quote by John Irving Download Open image ““Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast.”” — John Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Rural life Winter
“During our last year in the mountains new people came deep into our lives and nothing was ever the same again. The winter of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“In this neighborhood of unreliable cars and steady, hopeful hearts. In this city known for its winters, in the middle of the plains, in… — Caitlin Hamilton Summie Copy Share Image
“I wanted a life of my own, a life where I could feel myself being a part of Winter. And that, to me, came… — Sara Raasch Copy Share Image
“Avoiding Germans, they were delivering themselves into rural silences ever more profound. They ate snow.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was mundane. Pedestrian. But there was something beautiful about that mud-encrusted snow. How many people had passed through on their commutes to work,… — Nikki Elizabeth Copy Share Image
“Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers, From those brown hills, have melted into spring.” — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“Every Canadian winter was a mortal challenge to its habitants.” — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
“The first snowfall of the season and everyone seems to forget, en masse, how to drive. I” — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
“one day you stepped in snow, the next in mud, water soaked in your boots and froze them at night, it was the next… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“New York gets god awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in the streets.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales;” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them? All that romance about snow and seasons… You shouldn't have to make a… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean! — John Irving Copy Share Image
The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“God, I think I just hit a high E-flat - and I really held it!" Esmeralda said, after one of her more prolonged orgasms,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked. "Seventeen, " I told her. "Seventeen!" Miss Frost… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen Meany] said crossly. "LOOK AT THOSE WEIRDO TV MIRACLE-WORKERS--THEY'RE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO BELIEVE IN MAGIC! BUT THE REAL MIRACLES AREN'T ANYTHING YOU CAN SEE--THEY'RE THINGS YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE WITHOUT SEEING. IF SOME PREACHER'S AN ASSHOLE,… — John Irving Copy Share
It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Only the chicken-lover will understand me. He will give me a kindly look, maybe mildly desirous. His eyes will tell me: You might look… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image