Susan Glaspell Trifles Important Quotes & Sayings

Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be? — Denis Johnson

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever. — Edward Abbey

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell. — H.L. Mencken

[W]hen we come up with any concept at all, we simultaneously create one or more opposite concepts. — Steve Hagen

Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! — Steven Wright

I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like. — Ron Ben-Israel

Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't know which way to go. — Toni Morrison

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works. — Bruce Feiler

You've been the rabbi here for thirty years and these guys who've never set foot here want to decide who should be rabbi or not. And to lead prayer in Hebrew for Jews who speak Arabic, they want you to write in French. So I say they're nuts. — Joann Sfar

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion. — Brande Roderick

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true. — Berthe Morisot