136 Pounds Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Parker and all my parents live in a paper-mache world. They just patch up problems with strips of newspaper and a little glue. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting. — James Russell Lowell

I'm a critic. I write essays about works of art. It's like being a eunuch in the seraglio, but unrequited love is the sweetest, and I have the proper distance. I can compress the qualities of beauty I've been trained to see, store them up, and bring them out at will, rapid-fire, in the combinations I want. — Mark Helprin

I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack. — Mallory Jansen

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not. — Theodore White

God requireth not a uniformity of religion. — Roger Williams

he never stopped taking photographs, only now it isn't with a camera but mentally. — Eric Kim

Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention - these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies, to faith-healers and superheroes) - but most wondrous of all is his intimate sense of character. Each story is a confession of love betrayed, told with a mournful, austere tenderness as heartbreaking as it is breathtaking. — Peter Ho Davies

I want my readers to be disturbed. I want them to ask, 'Could this really happen?' It is my job to think up new possibilities, to stimulate thought. — Lois Tilton

As for my writing. I like it enough to keep going. I dislike it enough to keep going — James Richardson

In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age. — S.J Perelman