Quotes & Sayings About Holden Being Impulsive

Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level. — Jane Yolen

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole. — Bob Dole

The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression ... — May Sarton

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech. — Roland Barthes

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that. — Henry Louis Gates

I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum. — Padgett Powell

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. — Earl Nightingale

The gift of new day is divine. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Success and failure are largely the results of our habitual thoughts & many people create by default. - Marie Cunningham — Marie Cunningham

Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment. — Helene Cixous

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist. — Stanley Bing

But there was no room at the inn; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King. — Fulton J. Sheen