Atwoods Quotes & Sayings

The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another — Elizabeth Bear

If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too — John Fante

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. — Shirley Conran

I just felt like, "Why would you discuss my body as if it's an object?" People will come up and say things like, "Are your breasts real?" I mean, people will come up and discuss my body as if I'm not human. — Rose McGowan

Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys. Adolescence. The first date, the first kiss, the first chance to hold hands with someone special. Delayed, postponed, a decade's worth of longing
while everybody around you celebrates life, you pretend, suppress, inhibit, deprive yourself of you own joy
but finally ultimately, eventually, you find a place where you can have a taste of everything denied. — David Gerrold

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. — Freya Stark

Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose. — Chuck Palahniuk

Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love our enemies in such way that we pity their souls as if they were our own children. — Silouan The Athonite

I don't belong to you, Derek." "Oh?" He challenged me. "I belong with you. — Bella Forrest

It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at the end of it
if we could return to the same blind loves, the same self-confident blame, the same light thoughts of human suffering, the same frivolous gossip over blighted human lives, the same feeble sense of the Unknown towards which we have sent forth irrepressible cries in our loneliness. Let us rather be thankful that our sorrow lives in us as an indestructable force, only changing its form, as forces do, and passing from pain into sympathy
the one poor word which includes all our best insight and our best love. — George Eliot

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. — Heinrich Heine

You can't see the water until you run into it. A little boy took off running through it. He got all muddy. — Shannon O'Brien

I play Xbox in my underwear. — Mark Salling

Morality doesn't exist in space, only in the spaces between people. — Alex Latimer

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003. — Conan O'Brien