Lennen Quotes & Sayings

I know that Jesus is in charge; he's walking with me. — Ernie Harwell

A woman's bitchiness is all she has to hold on to. — Stephen King

real difficulty comes when we are doing something that we don't want to be doing. For example, if we must work when we want to be home, or if we are staying home when it is driving us crazy, then our parenting will tend to be influenced by guilt, resentment, and a whole range of other negative emotions. We need to make our best choices at each moment. We can't always have what we feel would be ideal, but we can actively do the best with the options as we see them. — Rahima Baldwin Dancy

I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks are against gays and light skinned Blacks and how intolerant Blacks are of different groups. My position was that Blacks were among the most humanistic, tolerant groups in the country and that across the street from my house in Oakland was one inhabited by White gays. — Ishmael Reed

In other parts of the world where I go, people are worried about, Jeez, you know, I really wanted to buy my kids shoes this year. — Chris Kilham

I went to the movies with my little Peggy Sue, I had a dip there in my lip just like I always do. — Robert Earl Keen

With no small remorse, she thought, "He and his mess
Better not come near this fabulous dress". — David Rakoff

She was, in short, melted by his distress, as so often happens with the female sex. Poets have frequently commented on this. You are probably familiar with the one who said, Oh, woman in our hours of ease tum tumty tiddly something please, when something something something brow, a something something something thou. — P.G. Wodehouse

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation. — Patricia McCormick

We'll know we've got it right when they choose for themselves, he used to say.
That doesn't make sense.
'That's what I thought too. I asked him what he meant, but he just shrugged. I don't think he knew himself. But I keep thinking maybe that stray is making exactly the kind of choice he talked about. We're talking about an adult dog, a dog that's been out in the woods for a long time, trying to decide whether or not we can be trusted. Whether this is his place. And it matters to him - he'd rather starve than make the wrong decision. — David Wroblewski

Getting behind the wheel, he said, "You're filthy, and you stink. You're not going to be a lot of trouble about taking a bath, are you?" The dog yawned. By — Dean Koontz