Carol Burnett Show Eunice Quotes & Sayings

For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of modern life; and then again fiction, at least as I write it and think of it, is a kind of religious meditation in which language is the final enlightenment, and it is language, in its beauty, its ambiguity and its shifting textures, that drives my work. — Don DeLillo

I don't want to be 'the girl with cancer' ... I just didn't want that to be my only thing. But it is pert of me. And it's a big part of me. — Hoda Kotb

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina. — George McGovern

The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners. — D. Elton Trueblood

I'm sure that love exists, even infinite, eternal love. — Kylie Minogue

To have nothing to do, to sit there waiting for little aches and pains, is fundamentally wrong. Life has to be lived. — Johannes Heesters

Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on. — Aberjhani

Blessing is not a technique we perform but a presence we embody. It is not an act we do to someone or something, but a relationship we form with them that enables us all to be embraced in the presence of an unobstructed world. — David Spangler

If the warriors come here, and your head is still on your shoulders at sunset, come and find me, — Paulo Coelho

As we step into our life's work, we discover that we have been preparing for this our whole lives, even though in that very moment we feel insufficient. — Jeff Goins

We don't know much about Otrera from the old stories. Those Ancient Greek dudes didn't care where Otrera came form or what made her tick. Why would that be?
1) She was a woman.
2) She was a scary woman.
3) She was a scary woman who killed Ancient Greek dudes. — Rick Riordan

I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you? — Audre Lorde

She was so wicked. Such a classic case of resentment and ambivalence bumping and brushing up against all that maternal instinct. The love and hate in her was as vast as space- all meteors, no atmosphere. — Laura Kasischke

Maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. — John Green

How many are we talking about? What percentage of females in Chicago are ready to have sex with you right now? What happens if one of them needs to travel? Do they have a phone tree? Is there a coverage plan or a backup plan for emergencies?"
Quinn covered the bottom half of his mouth with his free hand, too late to mask the smile, his shoulders started shaking with silent laughter.
I continued, feeling a little better knowing that he was able to laugh at himself, "Is there entry criteria? An established search committee? An interview process? Skills test? What kind of radius do you require? Do you have one circling the block now? Do you always keep one nearby? Was there one at the restaurant? At the bar maybe? — Penny Reid