Racker Center Quotes & Sayings

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. — Matthieu Ricard

[D]on't be so smart that you act stupid. — Dana Alison Levy

You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form. — John Updike

I spend about a year between novels. — Anne Tyler

You know at this point you have everything you need. It's available to you from the inside and you see you are supported in many ways. You realize that there is more to this dimension, to this reality, than you have seen before. You see you are being taken care of, you are being loved, you are being looked after. All that's needed is to go inside, become still and listen. — Paul Lowe

When you've had a little success, magazines are a lot less apt to use that phrase, 'Not for us. — Stephen King

At paces that might stun and dismay the religious jogger, the runners easily kept up all manner of chatter and horseplay. When they occasionally blew by a huffing fatty or an aging road runner, they automatically toned down the banter to avoid overwhelming, to preclude the appearance of show boating (not that they slowed in the slightest). They in fact respected these distant cousins of the spirit, who, among all people, had some modicum of insight into their own days and ways. But the runners resembled them only in the sense that a puma resembles a pussy cat. It is the difference between stretching lazily on the carpet and prowling the jungle for fresh red meat. — John L. Parker Jr.

Dead is dead, we know where to file another person's extinction, but the artist purposely zoomed in on the living, or, to be more accurate, the forced-to-be-living and the soon-to-be-dead. Grainy — Gary Shteyngart

I agree with Marco [Rubio] that we can't afford another four years like the last eight years that we've had under [Barack] Obama, for sure. That we concur on. I think we need someone with proven executive leadership to be able to make that case to the American people. — Jeb Bush

God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs. — Spencer W. Kimball

The prevailing caste system cannot be successfully dismantled with a purely race-neutral approach. To — Michelle Alexander

I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her. — James Lusarde

There are old-money Asians that would never be caught dead with a Chanel handbag or sporting anything that has a label it. — Kevin Kwan