Dave Rosin Quotes & Sayings

She ever marry?"
"No."
The no sounds like "not in a million years." Like Aunt Alice couldn't marry, like she has one arm and horns sticking out of her head and she talks in tongues. Or maybe has several tongues to talk with. — Travis Thrasher

You can't mess around with young readers - you have to cut straight to the heart of the story. The character can be complex, the plot can have some surprises, but the emotions have to be clear. — Rodman Philbrick

You can't just say that, Pasquale. Those words have tremendous power. It's how people end up married. — Jess Walter

How loose the silk. How jailed down the juice. — Toni Morrison

My dad - who was a tough guy, a Green Beret - always looked nice and wore these bright Sansabelt pants. He always said, "You have two options: You can be a follower or you can be a leader. And you don't ever want to follow anybody." And that's kind of become my philosophy about everything. — Bubba Watson

The noble feel the same strong feelings as the rest of us; the difference is in how they choose to act. — Lauren Groff

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life — Catherine Helen Spence

Consciousness ... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'. — William James

The size of the place that one becomes
a member of is limited only by
the size of one's heart. — Gary Snyder

Sometimes I think there's no such thing as falling in love. It's just the fear of losing someone. — Jodi Picoult

He walked up to her and they began dancing. She was dressed like Cinderella and he looked just like Prince Charming.
As they danced, he whispered to her, I believe in fairy tale endings. — Linda Weaver Clarke

We're big Hillary [Clinton] supporters. For a lot of reasons. — Ilana Glazer

Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it. — Laurence Sterne

Open the ovoid mother and find the ovoid girl; open the child and the next egg grins up its invitation to crack it. You can never tell a priori how many iterations await you; you hope they continue forever. My daughter, my matryoshka. — Natalie Angier