Cedar Rapids Memorable Quotes & Sayings

There are certain phrases in books of mine, and I don't know where they came from, or how I was capable of thinking up these formulations. It's only in the heat of composition that these things occur to you. — Paul Auster

There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's — Jed Rubenfeld

The best thing about reading is to escape from your life, to be able to live hundreds or even thousands of different lives. — Anna Todd

Why go further and further,
Look, happiness is right here.
Learn how to grab hold of luck,
For luck is always there. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Demonstrating patience and kindness to those around us in concrete ways blesses and enriches us as well. - Louise D. Flanders - — Gary Chapman

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters. — Jaime Ray Newman

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum. — Albert Einstein

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches. — Ida B. Wells

He looks like the rich-boy villain in an '80s teen movie - the one who bullies the sensitive misfit, the one who will end up with a pie in the puss, the whipped cream wilting his upturned collar as everyone in the cafeteria cheers. — Gillian Flynn