Autour De Moi Quotes & Sayings

Half-formed ideas, they float around. They come from different places, and the mind has got this wonderful way of somehow just shoveling them around until one day they fit. They may fit not so well, and then we go for a bike ride or something, and it's better."12 — Walter Isaacson

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one. — Lillian B. Rubin

I am old enough now to know I know nothing — Amy Poehler

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea. — Sean O'Casey

Before I left, I just wanted to say ... thank you." It came out a little strangled.
I thought about it for a moment. "You're welcome?"
"Do you know what I'm thanking you for?"
Damn. I'd hoped he wouldn't ask that. It couldn't be for lunch, since we'd never had any. And I guessed we wouldn't now, what with a possessed fridge and all.
"No?" I said, figuring I had a fifty-fifty shot. — Karen Chance

WE AWAIT SILENT TRISTERO'S EMPIRE. — Thomas Pynchon

The world can be a big, cold place. No reason we can't give each other a hand and ease the way a bit. — Karen McQuestion

The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are meted out to the evil and the greatest of blessings to the good. — Epicurus

*A leap of faith is required if we are to believe that nonviolence can heal a violent world, that turning the other cheek when struck, instead of striking back, can end a fight. We need faith to believe that by loving our enemy we can eventually transform him into an ally; that even when nonviolence fails to achieve peace, it can succeed in curing hate.** — Robert Lawrence Smith

In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich