Checkboard Quotes & Sayings

The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square, I would be all right, but it was hard to ignore the black squares that surrounded the white ones. The contrast got under my skin. The floor meant yes, no, this, that, up, down, day, night -all the indecisions and opposites that were bad enough in life without having them spelled out for you on the floor. — Susanna Kaysen

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives. — Timothy Keller

Call it an issue. Call it baggage. But I really hated lies. They're ugly things, festering like wounds, spreading like disease. They're winner-less crimes that hurt everybody in the end. — Cora Carmack

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to. — George R R Martin

Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film. — Henry Fonda

There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb. — Joyce Rachelle

There is no just playing to catch the leader in a pick-and-pray - once your picks are in, that's it. — Peter T. Fornatale

Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all. — Deb Caletti

Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score years ago. But the atmosphere and the attitude of bigotry remain. If religion cannot ordinarily invoke the armed force of law to punish heretics, it still plays upon the psychology of fear and predominantly its influence is to frighten men and distort their views and poison every process of their reasoning. — E. Haldeman-Julius

I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life. — Norman Mailer

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore. — Anatole Broyard

You do not need to be writing or painting or sculpting in order to be creative. You must simply create. — David Levithan