Lyndsey Parker Quotes & Sayings

I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison — Fannie Flagg

Most fundamentally, I used to write because I received positive feedback. To a guy who was picked on pretty relentlessly through a lot of his childhood, the respect and affection of students and teachers is addictive. It was a couple years after grad school that I realized that a need for affirmation wasn't a good enough reason to keep writing, especially in the face of rejection after rejection after even personal rejection, and that if I was going to do it, I had to acknowledge that it was going to take my whole life. The decision to do it until I'm dead has made the writing and the writing life so much easier. — Donald Dunbar

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd. — Voltaire

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education. — James S. Coleman

Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites. — Jerry Spinelli

I don't get hardly anything out of anything. I'm in bad shape. I'm in lousy shape. — J.D. Salinger

I'll miss you. No matter how short a time you're gone. — Stephenie Meyer

Nor bird nor beast
Could make me wish for anything this day,
Being old, but that the old alone might die,
And that would be against God's Providence. — William Butler Yeats

Cartooning will destroy you; it will break your heart. — Charles M. Schulz

I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make. — William S. Burroughs

Some relationships need an intermission while some require an ending. — Renita Bryant

Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories . . . legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. — Dan Brown