Z For Zachariah Robert C O'brien Quotes & Sayings

Q: What's the difference between a Communist car and a Communist proselytizer? A: You can close the door on a Communist proselytizer. — Martin Amis

Anyway, my writer gang: they kind of did their comedy apprenticeship with me and, during that period, when they were young and impressionable, I think I infected them with my pun virus. They grew to enjoy puns, think puns, just as much as me. The problem is people don't really like puns any more, so I worry I've rendered the poor fuckers virtually unemployable. — Frank Skinner

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness. — Merrill Markoe

A demon was asking me what I wanted.
My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. "What do you want?" he said softly. — Kim Harrison

I happen to know this, and I happen to know that, and maybe I know that;and I work everything out from there. Tomorrow I may forgot that this is true, but remember that something else is true, so I can reconstruct it all again. I am never quite sure of where I am supposed to begin or where I am supposed to end. I just remember enough all the time so that as the memory fades and some of the pieces fall out I can put the thing back together again every day — Richard Feynman

Begin to listen to what you say. Don't say anything that you don't want to become true for you. — Louise Hay

Have you seen your butt in jeans? Until you have, you're not qualified to comment. — Samanthe Beck

seeking comfort through continuity, as grand voices somehow hold off the permanent darkness that gathers though it does not fall. — Harold Bloom

I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The three processes - people, strategy, and operations - remain the building blocks and heart of good execution. — Ram Charan

I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.' — Bat For Lashes

The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows. — Libba Bray

Don't try and make me feel better, Alex. I hate you."
"I hate you, too. — Simone Elkeles

She lit up as she descended the stairs to the hall, knowing that she would not have dared had her father been at home. He had precise ideas about where a woman should be seen smoking: not in the street, or any public place, not on entering a room, not standing up, and only when offered, never from her own supply - notions as self evident to him as natural justice. Three years among the sophisticates of Girton had not provided her with courage to confront him. — Ian McEwan