Detta Quotes & Sayings

Does not knowing an alternative make this dangerously thin, exquisitely brutal, compulsorily homicidal fishbowl right, or good? — John Zande

The Bow's passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is legible on the building's exterior. — Jeanne Gang

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so. — Bob Edwards

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment. — Tom Rachman

Didn't go in, just hovered outside like homeless person because (a) place was too small and Detta would have spotted me, and (b) once you're through doors of shop like that, if you try to leave without buying anything, they shoot you in the back with sniper's rifle. — Marian Keyes

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes. — Caroline Knapp

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist." — Leo Tolstoy

My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that life has him beaten."
"Tell him to take out the goalie. — Charles M. Schulz

Detta thought he and Eddie were monsters of some species she called Honk Mafahs. — Stephen King

Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression. — Harold Ramis

I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot. — Peter Tork

Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence. — Rich Mullins

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. — Phillip Adams

She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt! — Stephen King

Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances. — Sylvan Barnet

Not long before, I had stayed up late with my mother and watched Citizen Kane, and I was very taken with the idea that a person might notice in passing some bewitching stranger and remember her for the rest of his life. Someday I too might be like the old man in the movie, leaning back in my chair with a far-off look in my eyes, and saying: You know, that was sixty years ago, and I never saw that girl with the red hair again, but you know what? Not a month has gone by in all that time when I haven't thought of her. — Donna Tartt

What I am to be, I am becoming. — Theodore Roosevelt