Lauren Lindsay Quotes & Sayings

The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930s it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it, the ascent of man, against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty. — Jacob Bronowski

I clutched the leg of the table again immediately, and pressed it to my bosom as if it had been the companion of my youth and friend of my soul. I foresaw what was coming, and I felt that this time I really was gone. — Charles Dickens

You and your rugged sexuality better scoot over," I whispered. "Unless you want to be responsible for making me pass out on this plane. I'm not sure that flight attendant knows CPR."
"It's okay," he said, lowering his lips all the way to my ear so they touched my skin when he spoke. "I'm really good at mouth-to-mouth."
Holy shit. — Lily Paradis

I never wanted to kiss anyone more than I did when Dean Powell opened his beautiful, sleepy eyes and looked at me. — Lily Paradis

When children are stripped of a primary experience base as confinement schooling must do to justify its existence, the natural sequence of learning is destroyed, a sequence which puts experience first. — John Taylor Gatto

The second our eyes met, I knew something has changed. Kenzie was right. He looked at me like he could see into my very soul, and it felt as if I couldn't breathe. — Lily Paradis

Maybe Lindsay and I are best friends and we hate each other, both. Maybe I'm only one math class away from being a slut like Anna Cartullo. Maybe I am like her, deep down. Maybe we all are: just one lunch period away from eating alone in the bathroom. I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision. — Lauren Oliver

I love you, Lauren Lindsay. I want to kiss you more than I want to breathe, but I don't want you to think you're just another notch in my belt. You're not. You're it for me. I want you to have everything and I want to make sure I'm good enough for you. You deserve more than who I was. — Lily Paradis

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along. — John Ruskin

I know," I admitted, hating that it was true. "But it is only worth losing some lives if
we can win, otherwise the lives were lost for nothing. — Amanda Hocking

Lauren," Kenzie managed finally as she dramatically fanned herself, and then me. "You did not just meet him last night."
"No really," I said when I could speak. "He kind of swept me off my feet. Literally. — Lily Paradis

I always wanted to play the boyfriends of doomed girls. — Justin Long

Without a doubt, Robert Rodriguez is the reason I was drawn to it. The fact that he even knew who I was and then was interested in me for the role was amazing. I am a huge fan of his and it's like a bucket list thing for me to be able to work with him and knowing that Jessica Alba and Jeremy Piven were in it I knew that part was going to be good and as you said, the pedigree of the series was great, so it was really one of those things I couldn'tresist. — Joel McHale

I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct. — Martin Parr

I'm so proud of you," I said over her shoulder. "I'm so proud of you that I'm going to stop at the store on my way home."
Callie pulled back. "Why?"
"Because," I told her. "I'm going to bake you a cake."
"You suck at baking," she said.
This was true.
"Okay," I said, "I'm going to buy you a cake."
"Cool. — Lily Paradis

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants. — Daniel Akaka

One of my really good friends in New York is a musician and looks just like Lindsay Buckingham. We always fancied ourselves the nice Fleetwood Mac. — Lauren Cohan

Mmm, butt bagels." Elody reaches into the bag and pulls out a bagel, half squashed, then makes a big deal of taking an enormous bite out of it. "Taste like Victoria's Secret."
"Taste like thong floss," I say.
"Taste like crack," Lindsay says.
"Taste like fart," Elody says, and Lindsay spits coffee on the dashboard, and I start laughing and can't stop, and all the way to school we're thinking of flavors for butt bagels, and I'm thinking that this
my life, my friends
might be weird or screwy or imperfect or damaged or whatever, but it's never seemed better to me. — Lauren Oliver

He was wearing glasses. Who was he, Clark Kent? No one looked this good all the time. It just wasn't possible. — Lily Paradis

Who the hell calls at two in the morning?"
"Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love," Lindsay says.
"Very funny, — Lauren Oliver

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art. — David Foster Wallace

If you think someone is AWESOME, tell them! The world NEEDS more of THAT! — Tanya Masse

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close. — Lauren Oliver

And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to have everything together when really she's just floundering like the rest of us. Lindsay, who will bite at you if you even look in her direction the wrong way, like on of those tiny attack dogs that are always barking and snapping in the air before they're jerked backward on the chains that keep them in one place. — Lauren Oliver

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one. — John Lennon

The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nope," I said, closing my eyes. I should probably go back to sleep. That sounded like a good idea. "I'm pretty sure it's Dean's rugged sexuality interfering with the machines. — Lily Paradis