Clunks Reading Quotes & Sayings

People always ask if I was really voted Most Bizarre Girl in high school. But that one's actually true. I was living in Michigan in a very conservative town and had a nose-ring and a shaved head and did kind of strange things. — Gillian Anderson

To live long, live slowly. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dante: Evergreens aren't supposed to die
Renee: Everything Dies .. — Yvonne Wood

Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores. — Saul Alinsky

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. — Benjamin Franklin

I cozied an apple in my hand and tried the weight of it against my palm, contemplating whether or not beaning a judge with half-rotten fruit would qualify as contempt of the court. Quite probably. — Rachel Heffington

National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write. — Karl Ove Knausgard

I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way to know if a sentence really works, without clunks or cul-de-sac clauses. — Anna Quindlen