Outcaster Quotes & Sayings

I might be clueless about many, many things, but even I know that I can't make someone like me. If someone likes you, they'll realize it. And then it will be worth the wait. — Courtney Cole

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi

He sat before a note book of blank pages, saying: I swallow my own words. I chew and chew everything until it deteriorates. Every thought or impulse I have is chewed into nothingness. I want to capture all my thoughts at once, but they run in all directions. If I could do this I would be capturing the nimblest of minds, like a shoal of minnows. I would reveal innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and cowardice and courage. I want to tell the whole truth, but I cannot tell the whole truth because I would have to write four pages at once, like four columns simultaneously, four pages to the present one, and so I do not write at all. I would have to write backwards, retrace my steps constantly to catch the echoes and overtones. — Anais Nin

Are you absolutely certain this is safe?" Matthew Galloway asked, peering suspiciously out over the lake. — Lauren James

The golden moment when I'm not yet awake enough to remember that there are things I would rather forget. — Sonya Sones

I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions. — Jane Jacobs

Mom is calculated, logical, business-minded; kind but very, very direct. Makes you better by giving you these little pointers but doesn't baby you. My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader. It's cool to have pie-in-the-sky Dad, down-to-earth Mom. — Taylor Swift

Where God resides; there are no human beings. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

What is essential to the condition of plurality is this fine balance between similarity and dissimilarity among the partners of the exchange. — Rafael A. Calvo

That is what's meant by being afraid of the future, by showing how brilliant you come out of it. — Bisco Hatori

I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s? — Hal Varian