Claude Thomas Bissell Quotes & Sayings

He didn't need a psychiatrist to point out that writing had its autoerotic side - you beat a typewriter instead of your meat, but both acts depended largely on quick wits, fast hands and a heartfelt commitment to the art of the farfetched. — Stephen King

As I sit, my back leaning against a damp, moss-covered tree trunk, my eyes sweeping the canopy above, my ears straining to catch the crack of a distant branch that betrays an orangutan moving in the treetops, I think about how we humans search for God. The tropical rain forest is the most complex thing an ordinary human can experience on this planet. A walk in the rain forest is a walk into the mind of God. — Birute M.F. Galdikas

Which we welcomed precisely because it happened to suit our convenience. — Simone De Beauvoir

A woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off. — Steven D. Levitt

I still hope. I wouldn't be in this position if I didn't. I love the church. I love the Bible. But I think we're in a time where we're desperately in need of a great reformation. — John Shelby Spong

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England. — Rudyard Kipling

Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know? — Caroline Dhavernas

The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth. — Frederick Lenz

First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land — Chief Dan George

John spent the morning rebuilding his SOS sign on the beach. He says that he saw a commercial airliner pass over. I'm not sure if the trying circumstances have made him delusional, or if the plane was too high to see his small sign. I think he saw what he wanted to see. — Jennifer Arnett

Most of the time when you see a movie, the best character in the movie is not "the guy," it's the guy next to the guy. — Anthony Mackie

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. — Louisa May Alcott

The thing about Buffy and Spike is they understand each other on a level that nobody else understands her. — Sarah Michelle Gellar

I had uncovered a widely held but overlooked attachment: our attachment to the view that every problem must have a solution. We delude ourselves that we can think our way out of a problem or we see it as a matter of finding the right person to advise us. We become beggars for our problems, asking numerous people for an opinion. So often, we refuse to relax until a problem is fixed, only to discover our inability to relax was most of the problem. — Sarah Napthali

Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting. — Robert Herrick