Closeout Quotes & Sayings

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. — Victor Hugo

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

... the love which Kahu received from Koro Apirana was the sort that dropped off the edge of the table, like breadcrumbs after everybody else has had a big meal. — Witi Ihimaera

Man invents nothing God did not create first. — Mitch Albom

The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living." — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Closeout games are actually kind of easy. — Andrew Bynum

We got to pray just to make it today. — MC Hammer

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. — Donna Tartt

I wish so much to go that I almost wish I had never been there. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so. — Oprah Winfrey

Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you
do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale? — Chuck Palahniuk

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. — Lois Lowry

then flats of marigolds and petunias. Made of sterner stuff, I figured, their sort might survive my regime of horticultural neglect. — Kathy Reichs