Cullen Quotes & Sayings

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. — William Cullen Bryant

I have a rendezvous with life. — Countee Cullen

Death cut the strings that gave me life,
And handed me to Sorrow,
The only kind of middle wife
My folks could beg or borrow. — Countee Cullen

Well darling, we're all terminal, aren't we? — Nancy Jo Cullen

The goal is to write a story that you're proud of and hope the fans like it as well. — Cullen Bunn

I found a lacy red bra she left behind that fell by her bedside. Not to seem too Edward Cullen but I brought it to my nose. — Nicole Strycharz

I can think of so many tough guys that by definition it's their job to be tough and they're all in chapel. That's such a misconception and it's kind of gone out the window. Guys feel more comfortable going to chapel. I remember when I first started, guys were nervous about it and it was kind of a secret. There was still that stigma that came with it, but it's definitely been removed and (the faith movement) is definitely growing. — Matt Cullen

Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated.
Bella Cullen — Stephenie Meyer

Skipp and Spector's 'Books of the Dead' were huge influences on me as a writer. — Cullen Bunn

My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever ... and never did publish it. — Cullen Bunn

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. — Cullen Hightower

Eric penned nearly a dozen new journal entries in the next two months.
"I have a goal to destroy as much as possible," he wrote, "so I must not be sidetracked by my feelings of sympathy, mercy, or any of that."
It was a mark of Eric's ruthlessness that he comprehended the pain and consciously fought the urge to spare it. "I will force myself to believe that everyone is just another monster from Doom," [the computer game he played day and night] he wrote. "I have to turn off my feelings. — Dave Cullen

My old mind hadn't been capable of holding this much love. My old heart had not been strong enough to bear it. Maybe this was the part of me that I'd brought forward to be intensified in my new life. Like Carlisle's compassion and Esme's devotion. I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice, and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else. I could live with that. — Stephenie Meyer

What am I going to do with you? Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me! — Stephenie Meyer

I wanted his death so savagely that the need for it rang in my ears and clouded my
sight and was a flavor on my tongue. — Stephenie Meyer

Do I dazzle you? — Stephenie Meyer

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success. — Cullen Hightower

The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change. — Cullen Murphy

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea. — William Cullen Bryant

Human nature was smothered by society; healthy instincts were smothered by laws. They were training us to be assembly-line robots; that's why they lined the school desks up in rows and trained kids to respond to opening and closing bells. The monotonous human assembly line squelched the life out of individual experience. — Dave Cullen

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work. — Tom Cullen

Tell me," said Miss Fuller, "who is behind a great woman?" She looked around our circle, then stopped at me. "That's right. No one. She has to get there by herself. — Lynn Cullen

I can't be sure, of course, but I'd compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke. - Edward Cullen — Stephenie Meyer

We have rules One-Ear." The man smiled faintly at Mrs. Francis. "Ladies are not to be hacked apart with swords. It reflects badly on pirates in general and on our outfit in particular. — Sean Cullen

I coveted you. I had no right to want you
but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire. — Stephenie Meyer

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints. — Lynn Cullen

There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was. — Stephenie Meyer

You're intoxicated by my very presence. — Stephenie Meyer

The way everyone looked at me made me uncomfortable. Even Edward. It was like I had grown a hundred feet during the course of the morning. I tried to ignore the impressed looks, mostly keeping my eyes on Nessie's sleeping face and Jacob's unchanged expression. I would always be just Bella to him, and that was a relief. Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.747 — Stephenie Meyer

Money was invented
so we could know exactly how much we owe. — Cullen Hightower

A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle. — Cullen Hightower

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever. — Stephenie Meyer

We shall not always plant while others reap — Countee Cullen

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists. — Cullen Hightower

I'm very accident-prone. The problem is I sort of just do things. I'm impulsive, and sometimes I don't think. — Tom Cullen

All at once
A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,
And I am in the wilderness alone. — William Cullen Bryant

I'll work with her." For now. Then he gave Z a steady look and drew his line in the sand. "You are the owner, sir, but they're my trainees. I would be most grateful if you could remember that." Don't do it again.
Gray eyes level, Z tilted his head in acknowledgement and slid the trainee's paperwork down the bar top.
With a grin, the bartender set a drink on the bar. "You know, Marcus, you say fuck you almost as politely as the boss."
-Master Z, Marcus and Cullen — Cherise Sinclair

Afraid of a needle." he muttered to himself under his breath, shaking his head. "Oh, a sadistic vampire, intent on torturing her to death, sure, no problem, she runs off to meet him. An IV, on the other hand ... "
Edward Cullen — Stephenie Meyer

It's been amazing to play the same character through so many adventures. And it's so strange because my life has changed so much over these years, but 'Twilight' and Edward Cullen will always be a part of me. It's been my whole life. My whole 20s. And I wouldn't have it any other way. — Robert Pattinson

No wonder Edward was such a crazy driver," I muttered. "Who's Edward?" Elyssa asked. "You know, from Twilight. — John Corwin

It's too easy to be myself with you. — Stephenie Meyer

You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself. — Dave Cullen

The truth is ... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else. — Countee Cullen

Writing 'Deadpool' can be a lot of fun. When I first started working with the character, I wasn't sure I'd like him. I quickly realized, though, that a writer can do pretty much anything with him - comedic stories, serious stories, completely nonsensical stories. — Cullen Bunn

Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine. — Countee Cullen

You are so bizarre, even for a human."
"Thanks. — Stephenie Meyer

My dad was so influential in my career. It was a fulfillment of every athlete's dream. I dreamed about it as a kid. We played hockey in the backyard. We had silver buckets we carried around like the Stanley Cup. It was everything that you would hope. — Matt Cullen

Don't take too long, Mrs. Cullen — Stephenie Meyer

NICOLE CULLEN Long Tom Lookout — Jennifer Egan

My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life. — Peter Cullen

In times of crisis, different people react in different ways. Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven. — Cullen Bunn

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance. — Cullen Hightower

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again. — William Cullen Bryant

It's a lady with a stick. Are we pirates or what?" They pondered this fact for a moment.
"It's a big stick," observed one of his fellows. — Sean Cullen

Fall down again, Bella?'
No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face. — Stephenie Meyer

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance — Cullen Hightower

Do you ever think that your life might be easier if you weren't in love with me? - Edward Cullen — Stephenie Meyer

Those bastards at the casting agency said I couldn't play Edward Cullen. Well, I'm going to show them. I'm making my own movie. And I'm going to star in it.'
'You're remaking Twilight?'
'Yes. — Lola Salt

Takes a lot of spunk to spin gold from heartache, Mrs. Osgood. A lot of drive. Most of us can't do it. It's a mean world, Mrs. Osgood, mean and spiteful. — Lynn Cullen

Darkness is so predictable. — Stephenie Meyer

In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait. — Countee Cullen

Our ego is our silent partner ... too often with a controlling interest. — Cullen Hightower

You know I don't understand what you mean, right?" I asked.
"I'm counting on it," she said, and then her eyes focused behind me. "I think your friends are upset that I've stolen you."
Suddenly I could feel all their eyes boring into my back. For once, it didn't bother me at all.
"They'll survive."
She grinned. "I may not give you back, though."
I swallowed too loud and she laughed. — Stephenie Meyer

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang? — Countee Cullen

Deadpool's' probably pretty proud of his comic book hero physique. — Cullen Bunn

As a writer, I feel like your favorite character shouldn't be safe. — Cullen Bunn

how can a little thing be so annoying? — Stephenie Meyer

He didn't ask what I was thinking, which was out of character for him. I guessed that meant that he was just as nervous as I suddenly was. — Stephenie Meyer

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. — Countee Cullen

I have forseen... — Stephenie Meyer

You don't get a lot of suicidal vampires. — Stephenie Meyer

Our strengths are not many. Our weaknesses are a lot. — Cullen Jenkins

Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them ... and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen. — Janette Rallison

To a fault, Ann has always been a very sensitive, trusting woman. It's as if she was born to feel and experience the world more acutely than the rest of us. It is both her greatest strength and weakness; if recognized by someone with devious intentions, this delicate quality can be easily exploited... — Mitch Cullen

The unspoken truth was that New Yorkers considered everyone in the world to be just a tad - well, more than just a tad, a lot more than a tad - old-fashioned compared with themselves. — Lynn Cullen

Courageous people are not afraid to fail. So often in life and in sports, we're afraid to fail. Instead, we should attack things with excitement and enthusiasm and think about the positives as opposed to the negatives. — Matt Cullen

Take care of my heart, I've left it with you. — Stephenie Meyer

You don't want romantic advice from me, you want romantic advice from Edward Cullen. I completely understand but he is completely unavailable right now and I'll tell you why. He doesn't exist. — John Green

Your love to me was like an unread book. — Countee Cullen

Is there an aphrodisiac more powerful than forbidden fruit hanging just out of reach? — Lynn Cullen

There are so many ways in which our hours can be claimed each day. What a shame that we only have one life. — Lynn Cullen

If this were real life,
Ed would have looked at her neck-
bite, dead, burp, credits. — Ryan Mecum

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest. — Cullen Hightower

Do you want me to tell you what I give a shit about at age sixty-five', Cullen said, 'and what I don't give a shit about?'
(page 262) — Elmore Leonard

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever. — Peter Cullen

You and I are poets, Mrs. Osgood. Our job is to raise questions, not to answer them. — Lynn Cullen

I loved 'Lobo' in the '90s, but I think that character is hard to connect with, especially for new readers. — Cullen Bunn

She pushed the hair away, then began uncoiling and recoiling the silky mass with an unconscious, natural grace. Against the crude background of the alley, she was startlingly feminine and delicate, and with every movement of her arms and hair, her scent wove around Cullen - flowers and freshness and the subtle earthy warmth of woman It sank into him and hardened him with a primitive fierceness he hadn't experienced since his early teens. — Fiona Brand

FEW PEOPLE in American history have been as consistently disliked as the Puritans. — Jim Cullen

You're not asleep, and you're not dead. I'm here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second that I was away. When I told you that I didn't want you, it was the very blackest kind of blasphemy. — Stephenie Meyer

Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one. — Cullen Hightower

There are plenty of characters I'd love to write. Swamp Thing, Etrigan the Demon, Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, Dr. Strange, Dr. Druid, Ghost Rider, the Micronauts, the Shogun Warriors ... the list goes on and on. — Cullen Bunn

Man dreams that he is more than a leaf on a tree.'
-Leaves by Countee Cullen — Countee Cullen

I think every role that I go up for is daunting. — Tom Cullen

It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning. — Paul Cullen

Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire. — Lynn Cullen

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. — Cullen Hightower

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing. — Countee Cullen

A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine. — William Cullen Bryant

And it was worse because Edward Cullen wasn't in school at all. — Stephenie Meyer