Reiters Baytown Quotes & Sayings

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it. — Debbie Harry

We are accustomed to the idea that the truth of things may be neither pleasant nor comforting; we are less accustomed to the idea that the truth may be unfruitful. — Raymond Tallis

Man by Nature desires to know. — Aristotle.

Baby, I'm the oldest of three boys. I can handle a fist to the face, an elbow to the ribs, even a flying tackle. But a woman's tears? They scare me, straight to the bone. — Samanthe Beck

Men go to the ballpark with an assumed knowledge and interest, whereas women need to constantly demonstrate how much they know and care. — Stacey May Fowles

But I just knew, from everything that I saw, that there is no transcending the human experience. You've got to realize that most of us feel permanently displaced and savagely undone. Most of us try everything we can to manage our fears and our insecurities. Most of us are profoundly inhuman to ourselves and other people, and that makes us no less valuable, and no less worthy of attention and love. I didn't transcend all this stuff, you just got to live with them, man, and there's nothing like trying to run away from all that stuff to guarantee its supremacy. My idea is to change at least the percentage of the vote. These voices are always going to get a vote, but do they always have to have the majority of the vote? ... You try to distribute who you are in different proportions, but the transcendence myth will just do you in, in the long run. — Junot Diaz

That best academy, a mother's knee. — James Russell Lowell

Nowadays, she doesn't even look in a mirror. She's afraid no one will be staring back at her. — Alice Hoffman