Pegeen Quotes & Sayings

The spirit is one of the most neglected parts of man by doctors and scientists around the world. Yet, it is as vital to our health as the heart and mind. It's time for science to examine the many facets of the soul. The condition of our soul is usually the source of many sicknesses. — Suzy Kassem

The owner's wife gave me a container of chicken soup and a quart of rice pudding to take home. She was a broad, solid woman with thick arms and legs. She swiped vigorously at the stain on my coat with a wad of dampened paper towel, and I remembered Pegeen then: There's always someone nice. — Alice McDermott

When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas. — Jean-Louis Trintignant

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work. — Bill Dedman

Amadan." I said it as Pegeen had said it, ruefully, shaking my head as if speaking fondly of a troublesome child. I said it with my chin just above my own china cup and its dregs of melting sugar, with my eyes veering away from my brother's startled face and down into that ivory light. And then, for good measure, I said it again, into the teacup itself. "Amadan." The — Alice McDermott

Sometimes we only manage to arrive before we have to move on again. — Helen Manos

Nowadays, it's good to eat the booty like groceries, but back then, going down on a woman was sort of "Ew." — Jensen Karp

All the Baptist churches she's ever visited smelled of the same sweat and boredom. — Sheri Holman

Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable. — Joyce Carol Oates

This song is sweet. It is sweet. The heart dies of this sweetness. — Brigit Pegeen Kelly