Shutout Book Quotes & Sayings

Besides, I always feel safer when I've got words against my heart. — Zoe Trope

Who are you going swimming with?" Kinsley asked again.

"You're not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition," I replied.

"Stop changing the subject! With whom do you plan to swim?! — R.S. Grey

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. — Harry S. Truman

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human. — Rainn Wilson

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. — Oscar Wilde

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world ... And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom. — Oscar Wilde

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love. — Helen Hunt

Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling. — May-Britt Moser

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it. — Mark Twain

Ultimately, any character you write - no matter how fantastic or alien - is an extension of yourself. When our characters reflect the truth of our souls and psyches, they become real and compelling. The wonderful paradox is that the characters then take on lives of their own, separate from their creators. That's where the magic comes in. — J.M. DeMatteis

he gave way to a pleasant lassitude — Franz Kafka

The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought. — Marianne Williamson

The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to. — Yao Ming