Bodybuilders Who Have Died Quotes & Sayings

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory. — Jonathan Lethem

I think about Sam sometimes now and I realize that he is walking around with a fake set of memories about our time together. Our time together did not exist. I was not spending it with him. — Helen Slavin

Nothing about his betrothed please him more than her resolute determination to carry to its utmost limit that ritual of ignoring the "unpleasant" in which they had both been brought up. — Edith Wharton

Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying. — Matei Calinescu

For the first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it would be better for his health. — Ray Bradbury

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives. — Evangeline Lilly

Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves. — Chelsea Clinton

Then my hostess said, Oh, Denis (as my name was before I dyed it) never plays the part of a man. — Quentin Crisp

As Nancy Frey writes of the long-distance pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, 'When pilgrims begin to walk several things usually begin to happen to their perceptions of the world which continue over the course of the journey: they develop a changing sense of time, a heightening of the senses, and a new awareness of their bodies and the landscape ... A young German man expressed it this way: 'In the experience of walking, each step is a thought. You can't escape yourself. — Rebecca Solnit

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Honestly, I don't think Victoria has too many Secrets left ... might be time to prayerfully consider a name change. — Mark Hart

Mother Goose chuckled to herself. "Jack is nimble, Jack is quick - but Jack can be such a - " She stopped herself from finishing the thought, perhaps remembering she was talking to thirteen-year-olds. "I think I've had enough bubbly for one night. It's time for bed anyway. — Chris Colfer