1075 Central Park Quotes & Sayings

Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, which invented laws. — Kevin Bleyer

It's a very brave thing for anyone to do, offering love to another person. We make ourselves so vulnerable when we do it, don't we? We give that other person such power to hurt us and to rob us of our dignity. No one should ever belittle that gift, nor the giver. — Lynn Hall

A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear. — David Whyte

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind. — E. O. Wilson

The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but
" is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about. — Robert A. Heinlein

I was born here and I'll die here against my will. — Gordon Marino

Cletus Winston is madly in love with me. *** — Penny Reid

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers. — Kenneth Koch

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest. — Dionne Bromfield

I can't win with you. I can't win with you! You say you're done ... I'm fucking miserable over here! I had to break my phone into a million pieces to keep from calling you every minute of the damn day
I've had to play it off like everything is just fine at school so you can be happy ... and you're fucking mad at me? You broke my fuckin' heart! — Jamie McGuire

Chess worked for a wholesale grocery firm. He had thought of being a history teacher, but his father had persuaded him that teaching was no way to support a wife and get on in the world. His father had helped him get this job but told him that once he got in he was not to expect any favors. He didn't. He left the house before it was light, during this first winter of our marriage, and came home after dark. He worked hard, not asking that the work he did fit in with any interests he might have had or have any purpose to it that he might have once honored. No purpose except to carry us both toward that life of lawnmowers and freezers which we believed we had no mind for. I might marvel at his submission, if I thought about it. His cheerful, you might say gallant, submission.
But then, I thought, it's what men do. — Alice Munro

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans. — Dominique De Villepin