Amalias Quotes & Sayings

My father's gone," Joe said eventually. "Emma's dead. Your brother's dead. My brothers scattered. Shit, D, you're one of the only people I know anymore. I lose you, who the fuck am I? — Dennis Lehane

Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world - or the last. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy. — J.D. Salinger

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story. — Rashida Jones

Do not suffer your good nature [ ... ] to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public not a private cause that is to be injured or benefitted by your choice — George Washington

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed. — Ambrose Bierce

The instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable. — Simone Weil

There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant. — Dan Povenmire

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year. — Michael Bay

Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things. — Charlie Munger

As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I CAN'T READ, BUT I CAN THROW A FOOTBALL. Mr. Shunk's would read, I WISH I COULD TOSS YOU ALL ON AN ISLAND BY YOURSELVES. Dad's would read, I HATE MYSELF FOR NO GOOD REASON.

My Idea grows. — A.S. King

There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert. — Lisa Gerrard

Hale dropped down and lay in front of me, wrapping an arm around my shoulder. Don't worry, I've got you. — Kiera Cass