Bowlfuls Quotes & Sayings

I guess I'm too selfish to travel well with other people, I told Anne later. — Alice Steinbach

You are very smart. You must be very well educated. You are very pretty. You must be very rich because you're a writer. — Lisa See

Quilty grimaces. "I don't like what comes after 'dicker.' " "What is that?" Quilty sighs. "Dickest. I mean, really: it's not a contest! — Lorrie Moore

It's not conditions but decisions that determine our lives. — Anthony Robbins

We assassinate. We don't accessorize. But I understand how it is possible to confuse the two. — Angelika Rust

Whether white, black, Asian, or Latino, American students rarely arrive at college as habitual readers, which means that few of them have more than a nominal connection to the past. It is absurd to speak, as does the academic left, of classic Western texts dominating and silencing everyone but a ruling elite or white males. The vast majority of white students do not know the intellectual tradition that is allegedly theirs any better than black or brown ones do. They have not read its books, and when they do read them, they may respond well, but they will not respond in the way that the academic left supposes. For there is only one 'hegemonic discourse' in the lives of American undergraduates, and that is the mass media. Most high schools can't begin to compete against a torrent of imagery and sound that makes every moment but the present seem quaint, bloodless, or dead. — David Denby

A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog's eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, "What do you want me to do for you? I'll do anything for you." Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don't have sheep (I never have) is another matter. The dog is willing. — Roy Blount Jr.

It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye. — Natasha Lyonne

Let each look to himself and not try to make out white black, and black white; for each of us is as God made him, aye, and often worse. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government. — Jay-Z

When we die ... we fall asleep, and are immersed in a dream state.However,when we are born, the ideal is to come out of the dream state and into full-waking consciousness.-Serena Jade — Serena Jade