Habitues Quotes & Sayings

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it. — Kathy Acker

I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work. — Barack Obama

I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that. — Maria Semple

I have been left-wing always, from childhood. — Claire Tomalin

And after all, they had been successful with the Jews and Gypsies and Bible Students. — Philip K. Dick

Time to stop crying, time to get her act together and do something. Time to move beyond the pity party. — Lisa McMann

instead of being in history he was in love — Mal Peet

Consider," replies the geomancer, "
adam and eve ate fruit from a tree, and were enlighten'd. the buddha sat beneath a tree, and he was enlighten'd. newton, also sitting beneath a tree, was hit by a falling apple,
and he was enlighten'd. a quick overview would suggest trees produce enlightenment. trees are not the problem. the forest is not an agent of darkness. but it may be your visto is. — Thomas Pynchon

Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others. — Louis L'Amour

Work to connect yourself to the allness of life
instead of identifying with the smallness of it
and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it. — Guy Finley

No, Tolya, your gifts lie elewhere," Sturmhond said soothingly. "Mostly in the celebrated fields of killing and maiming. — Leigh Bardugo

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen. — Tori Amos

My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny. — Magnus Scheving

I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition. — Matthew McConaughey

Yes, life is a woman! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was a "downer." And yet to be masturbated by an appealing masseuse, to be in the physical presence of a woman with whom there was some communication and understanding, if not love, was gratifying and fun. — Gay Talese

Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed. — John Dryden