Notebook The Fight Quotes & Sayings

Ask not what your Joe Montaperto can do for you - but rather - what you can do for your Joe Montaperto. — John F. Kennedy

What in the hell are you digging for?" "The seat belt." "Oh." She shrugged guiltily. "I cut them out. Everybody's doing it. — Robyn Peterman

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones. — Amy Lowell

I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off. — Patrice O'Neal

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect. — Graham Nash

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again. — Richard C. Armitage

Lately I've been thinking a lot about leaving versus being left, and how obvious it is that leaving is easier. It was for me. — Sarah Protzman

'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become. — Philip Roth

And what have I invested in interpreting disfocus for chaos? This threat: the only lesson is to wait. I crouch in the smoggy terminus. The streets lose edges, the rims of thought flake. What have I set myself to fix in this dirty notebook that is not mine? Does the revelation that, though it cannot be done with words, it might be accomplished in some lingual gap, give me the right, in injury, walking with a woman and her dog in pain? Rather the long doubts: that this labor tears up the mind's moorings; that, though life may be important in the scheme, awareness is an imperfect tool with which to face it. To reflect is to fight away the sheets of silver, the carbonated distractions, the feeling that, somehow, a thumb is pressed on the right eye. This exhaustion melts what binds, releases what flows. — Samuel R. Delany

. . . literature is not frivolous pseudo-statements but takes its place among the acts of language that transform the world, bringing into being the things that they name. — Jonathan Culler

I would fight every angel between us, until God said, Yes. — Shannon L. Alder

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. — McGeorge Bundy

Dessert is the most important meal of the day! — Lemony Snicket

It's a walking cart," Horace told him. "You get under it, so the spears won't hit you, and go for a walk. — John Flanagan

It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had. — Katy Perry

I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds
All the world's loves in its unworldliness. — Robert Browning