Aluminum Luggage Quotes & Sayings

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario. — Patricia Cornwell

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do. — Nathaniel Branden

You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me. — David Foster Wallace

She advised me to keep my fingers away from her goddamned cunt. — William Peter Blatty

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot. — Albert Camus

We speak for those who cannot speak. We have a duty to tell the stories for those who do not have the advantages that we have to tell stories. We must not speak falsely. The stories that we are entrusted to tell are stories of our tribes, or the tribes into which we have been initiated. — Billy Marshall Stoneking

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Men, for some mysterious reason, find life more difficult than women do. (My mother believes this, despite the female bodies, trapped, diseased, disappearing, or abandoned, thayt litter her stories.) Men must be allowed to play in the sandbox of their choice, as happily as they can, without disturbance; otherwise they get cranky and won't eat their dinners. There are all kinds of things men aren't equipped to understand, so why expect it of them? Not everyone shares this belief about men; nevertheless, it has it's uses. — Margaret Atwood

If there is a secret to writing, I haven't found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there. — Mary McGrory

Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so. — Laurence Sterne

Steady had always suspected Ethan "Ozzie" Sykes, despite his constant joking and bad taste in eighties music, was one tough motherfucker. — Julie Ann Walker

Plenty of people were writing novels; in fact, if one did a survey in the street, half of Edinburgh was writing a novel, and this meant that there really weren't enough characters to go round. Unless, of course, one wrote about people who were themselves writing novels. And what would the novels that these fictional characters were writing be about? Well, they would be novels about people writing novels. — Alexander McCall Smith

In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search. — Friedrich Nietzsche

cemetery had long ago ceased to be used; its dead had been dead for a very long time. — Muhammad Asad