Quotes by American Authors - Page 227

You can say nothing by saying everything. You can say everything by saying nothing.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
She focused on that nothingness, imagined it as ink spilling over everything she could possibly think or feel.
Marie Rutkoski
-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.
Patti Smith
Ain’t nothing scarier than someone with nothing.
J.D. Jordan
23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.
James C. Dobson
I wanted to give you everything, to withhold nothing from you, but then one day there was nothing left to give.
Kate McGahan
What is wrong with you?” Radu sounded on the verge of tears. “Why do you have to destroy everything good we have here?”“Because,” Lada said, voice flat with the sudden wave of exhaustion pulling her heavily to the ground. “We have nothing. Can you not see that?”“We have Mehmed!”Lada looked up. The stars were static, still and cold in the night, all the fire gone from the sky. “It is not enough,” she said.
Kiersten White
Lucien kept rubbing at his temples as he ate, unusually silent, and I hid my smile as I asked him, “And where were you last night?”Lucien’s metal eye narrowed on me. “I’ll have you know that while you two were dancing with the spirits, I was stuck on border patrol.” Tamlin gave a pointed cough, and Lucien added, “With some company.” He gave me a sly grin. “Rumor has it you two didn’t come back until after dawn.”I glanced at Tamlin, biting my lip. I’d practically floated into my bedroom that morning. But Tamlin’s gaze now roved my face as if searching for any tinge of regret, of fear. Ridiculous.“You bit my neck on Fire Night,” I said under my breath. “If I can face you after that, a few kisses are nothing.”He braced his forearms on the table as he leaned closer to me. “Nothing?” His eyes flicked to my lips. Lucien shifted in his seat, muttering to the Cauldron to spare him, but I ignored him.“Nothing,” I repeated a bit distantly, watching Tamlin’s mouth move, so keenly aware of every movement he made, resenting the table between us. I could almost feel the warmth of his breath.“Are you sure?” he murmured, intent and hungry enough that I was glad I was sitting. He could have had me right there, on top of that table. I wanted his broad hands running over my bare skin, wanted his teeth scraping against my neck, wanted his mouth all over me.“I’m trying to eat,” Lucien said.
Sarah J Maas
When you give everything, you have nothing to lose.
Kate McGahan
There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything.
T.S Eliot
Nothing will ever be enough to satisfy the black hole in our hearts.
Soman Chainani
We talk so much yet we have nothing to say.
Justin Wetch
Nothing can come of nothing. There is no room in my world for nothing.
Marty Rubin
She missed his nothing. It had felt like something.
Catherine Lacey
Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final signpost at the edge of nothing. After that - the deluge. The great white light of annihilation. The bright flash of death... ("Mr. Arcularis")
Conrad Aiken
The projector's beam lay warm on Walt's neck, and he knew they'd all been plucked from danger and love, from another time, another place, and set back into this dark, sticky-floored theater, in the heart of nothing much that mattered.
Alan Heathcock
Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing," covering myself with one of my daybooks ,and she said, "It's Something!
Jonathan Safran Foer
There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause a great big fight.
Edie brickell
turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound.
Ken Kesey
There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!
Libba Bray
I am nothing, and not even that.
Chuck Palahniuk
I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm doing, I'll tell her and everyone else that I know: t hey are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.
Ally Condie
...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.
Nelson Algren
it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horseor that the hummingbird is so seldomseenor that we are too senseless to goinsane.coffee. give us more of that NOTHINGcoffee.
Charles Bukowski
The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.
Charles Bukowski
I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing.
Michelle Hodkin
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.
Bryant McGill
In the country, especially, there are such a lot of entertaining things. I can walk over everybody's land, and look at everybody's view, and dabble in everybody's brook; and enjoy it just as much as though I owned the land--and with no taxes to pay!
Jean Webster
It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.
Diana Gabaldon
You have left too much of yourself in this land for it not to be yours. I, too, will always be yours, for you have left too much of yourself with me for it to be otherwise.
Nicholas Proffitt
If you were a country," I said, "what would your national anthem be?"I meant a pre-existing song -- "What a Wonderful World" or "Que Sera, Sera" or something to make it a joke, like "Hey Ya!" ("I would like, more than anything else, for my nation to be shaken like a Polaroid picture.")
David Levithan
People who look down on us poor country folk usually won’t admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.
Michael Thomas Ford
Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
Robert Frost
Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.
Richard Peck
It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.
Michael Cunningham
Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that.
Rick Riordan
Our students didn’t used to come from such damaged families,” Louis mused. “It’s true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams.
Paul Russell
A country is judged by the actions at the top. Such is the way across the world. Nations are judged by their rulers, and not by those that live within the borders.
Cheryl Matthynssens
Would you believe it? Would you believe it. Okay, this is WLRB, all-talk radio. Take a short break, then come right back to talk about whatever you want. Man, but I'm telling you: what's happening to this country!
Avi
In a country authored and sustained by criminal irresponsibility.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
It grey louder. Louder. They were singing, singing at the top of their lungs. Andrius joined, and then my brother and the gray-haired man. And finally, the bald man joined in, singing out national anthem. 'Lithuania, land of heroes...
Ruta Sepetys
What kind of country has this become? Decent people can’t do anything without being watched.
Dan Groat
In our opinion, Coke is great from a can, still good from a bottle, yet hard to get just right from the fountain. But oh, when they do get it right, it tastes good enough to be an eighth wonder of the world.
Alecia Whitaker
His green-flecked brown eyes twinkle, and we laugh together, easy and light. He opens the door for me, and I say goodbye, floating over to where my family waits in our Winnebago. And I can't tell you if my feet actually touch the ground, because at this very moment, this Bird, well, she flies.
Alecia Whitaker
That boy shakes me upside down and inside out.
Alecia Whitaker
Being in the country is like being in a dream—one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all—that strange human creature that is me, one among all.
Meia Geddes
Aye. 'Tis a free country."Monq had come to check on Elora just as she asked that question."Well, that kind of has to be qualified," he interjected. "You can't come or go without a passport. You can't drive without a driver's license, registration, auto insurance and proof that your vehicle is up to code. You can't work or even get health care without a social security number. You have to pay taxes on everything including air and water. The closest distance between point A and B may involve paying a road toll. There are over three hundred thousand federal laws. You have to educate your children according to legal standards set by someone that's not you. There are laws about who can marry whom. But other than a few more such trivialities, it's a free country.
Victoria Danann
After all, the Indo-European word cunt was derived from the goddess Kunda or Cunti, and shares the same root as kin and country.
Eve Ensler
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Charmaine J.Forde
On the radio, turned low, Reba sang of hard times with the full authority of a cross-eyed redheaded millionaire.
Christopher Moore
Insecurity kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Suzy Kassem
We can learn as much, if not more, from failure, from promising paths that turn into dead ends. The vision, understanding, patience, and wisdom that informed Steve's last decade were forged in the trials of these intervening years. The failures, stinging reversals, miscommunications, bad judgment calls, emphases on wrong values-the whole Pandora's box of immaturity-were necessary prerequisites to the clarity, moderation, reflection, and steadiness he would display in the later years.
Brent Schlender
You can only fail better only if you learn from failures. And then failing is something that prompts you to move ahead.
Pearl Zhu
Failure is the new success.
Phil Volatile
Failing one time — or even several times — doesn’t make you a failure any more than losing one game makes you a loser.
Frank Sonnenberg
It is a strange thing to realize... but our failures so often place us where we need to be.
Jeff Loveness
Failure isn't the end of the world, nor is it a sign that you won't be capable of going on to do other things.
Dr. Kevin Leman
Now is the time to make good use of time.Today is the day to begin a perfect day.
Sri Chinmoy
God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.
Dillon Burroughs