Quotes & Sayings About Friendship In Looking For Alaska

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go. — J.M. Barrie

All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver. — Paul Caponigro

Sooner or later your fingers close on that one moist-cold spud that the spade has accidentally sliced clean through, shining wetly white and giving off the most unearthly of earthly aromas. It's the smell of fresh soil in the spring, but fresh soil somehow distilled or improved upon, as if that wild, primordial scene has been refined and bottled: eau de pomme de terre. You can smell the cold inhuman earth in it, but there's the cozy kitchen to, for the smell of potatoes is, at least by now, to us, the smell of comfort itself, a smell as blankly welcoming as spud flesh, a whiteness that takes up memories and sentiments as easily as flavors. To smell a raw potato is to stand on the very threshold of the domestic and the wild. (241) — Michael Pollan

I knew i would win. I cheated to win and so i felt surprised that i felt so surprised! — Daniel B. Harris

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all. — Hans Christian Andersen

We might someday attain a relationship of mutual respect," he said softly. First, I thought, I will see gods walking the earth. He went on. "For now I will have your obedience." His ability to convey a world of threat in so few words was remarkable. — Megan Whalen Turner

She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does. — Marcel Proust

I'm very happy to be a part of a very successful piece of art, as the 'Saw' films have been. One gets into this to participate. It's the coming together of a good story. So, that aspect of it has been just splendid. It really has nothing to do with me or my popularity. I'm fascinated. — Tobin Bell

But when you only speak using generalizations, you run the danger of denying the specific. In recent decades, millions of people have come to us from cultural groups within which women have absolutely no rights. They do not have a voice of their own and they are totally dependent on their fathers, brothers or husbands. That applies to North Africa and that applies to large parts of the Middle East. It isn't always linked to Islam. — Alice Schwarzer

But there is so much you can do with five children in a dark parking lot before you want to sell them. — Emma McLaughlin

One of the privileges of being an athlete is that on days when I have practice and games, I'm present whether I'm present or not. It's not fair, but that's the system. What can I do about it? — Erin O'Riordan

I feel as if there's a huge gulf separating me from all the lucky people in the world; they have so much to look forward to. — Ruth Reichl

I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference. — Christian Serratos