Gravina Malibu Quotes & Sayings

He did not seem to know enough about the people in his novel. They did not seem to trust him. They were all named, more or less, all more or less destined, the pattern he wished them to describe was clear to him. But it did not seem clear to them. He could move them about but they themselves did not move. He put words in their mouths which they uttered sullenly, unconvinced. With the same agony, or greater, with which he attempted to seduce a woman, he was trying to seduce his people: he begged them to surrender up their privacy. And they refused - without, for all their ugly intransigence, showing the faintest desire to leave him. They were waiting for him to find the key, press the nerve, tell the truth. — James Baldwin

Finally, a twenty-two old girl was dazzled by the world's brightness and kept her eyes shut for two weeks. When at the end of that time she opened her eyes again, she did not recognize any objects, but, the more she now directed her gaze upon everything about her, the more it could be seen as an expression of gratification and astonishment overspread her features; she repeatedly exclaimed, 'Oh God! How beautiful! — Ann Dillard

Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water. — Sue Grafton

As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it made me feel very insecure. — Natasha Kaplinsky

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings. — Edward Abbey

I've got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match. What a catch. — Fall Out Boy

I think things that i shouldn't.I dream things that i shouldn't.I want things that i shouldn't and it's all because of one thing
I do care about you. — H.M. Ward

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve. — John F. Kennedy