Mithen Keep Quotes & Sayings

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent. — Alison Lurie

Bob slid his chair back and moved the coal-oil lamp from the kitchen to the sitting room. He said, "Oftentimes things seem impossible up until they're attempted." Then he lidded the chimney glass with his palm and suffocated the light. — Ron Hansen

There is so much that needs to be said and too many things that can't ever be said. — Siobhan Davis

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both. — Katey Sagal

There has to be something wrong when spurning reproduction doesn't make Gabriella and me the "mavericks" we'd both have prided ourselves as in our younger days but standard issue for our era. Surely the contemporary absorption with our own lives as the be-all and end-all ultimately hails from an insidious misanthropy - a lack of faith in the whole human enterprise. In its darkest form, the growing cohort of childless couples determined to throw all their money at Being Here Now - to take that step aerobics class, visit Tanzania, put an addition on the house while making no effort to ensure there's someone around to inherit the place when the party is over - has the quality of the mad, slightly hysterical scenes of gleeful abandon that fiction — Lionel Shriver

She hoped to understand the feelings that had sprouted and continued to grow inside her human shell. The unquenchable desire for companionship. The irrational fear of uncertainty. The constant, gnawing need for more. — Hillary Jacques

With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked. — Ellen Hopkins

Keep off your mind from the reward until the work is done; else you may be directed out of focus by the reward's appeals if it catches your attention! — Israelmore Ayivor