All Kinds Quotes - Page 28

• But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Land, Waiting

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.220, Penguin

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• As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. Likewise, the bicycle is alive and well. It was invented in a world without automobiles, and for speed and range it was quickly surpassed by motorcycles and all kinds of powered scooters. But there is nothing quaint about bicycles. They outsell cars.

  James Gleick

  Book, Gun, Technology

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• I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow believe that if I don't ask for it, everyone will forget about me: I will be a little kid sent off to sleep-away camp whose parents forget to meet her at the bus when she comes back in August. Or else I think people are nice to me only to be nice to me, that they feel sorry for me because I am such a loser- as if anyone could possibly be that generous.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Sorry, Nice, Believe

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Years, People, Perfect

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.32, Grove Press

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• Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

  Dean Koontz

  Eye, People, World

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• If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Book, Past

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.418, Best Books on

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• All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sight, Inspire, Doe

  "Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, II. 6, 1605-1615.

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• Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

  Karen Armstrong

  Self, Creative, Way

  Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.313, Vintage Canada

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• One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.

  Stella Gibbons

  Feelings, Gowns, Facts

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

  Sarah Dessen

  Falling In Love, Blow, Hair

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• There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt to define what our Church teaches... We are living in a world saturated with all kinds of voices. Perhaps now, more than ever, we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Responsibility, Lds, Voice

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• Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• "I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him. His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze of opiates. "Hey, Catnip." "Hey, Gale," I say. "Thought you'd be gone by now," he says. My choices are simple. I can die like a quarry in the woods or I can die here beside Gale. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble." "Me, too," Gale says. He just manages a smile before the drugs pull him back under.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sorry, Kissing, Simple

  "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 1, 2009.

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• As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.

  Bill Bryson

  Life, World, Kind

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

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• I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Wake Up, Want

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1108, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, People, Facts

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• The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Feel Better, Jumping, Years

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• What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow. She sounds just like my dad! "I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk." There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away. (107)

  Sherman Alexie

  Pain, Dad, Differences

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• Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamentals.

  Zadie Smith

  Football, People, The End Of The Day

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• Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

  Samuel Butler

  Genius, Might, Kind

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 11

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• There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

  Truman Capote

  Real, Strange, Kind

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.107, Vintage

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• The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.

  Simon R. Green

  Wall, Graffiti, Usual

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.17, Penguin

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• when hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible

  Joan Bauer

  Kind

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Hope Was Here”, p.57, Penguin

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• People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.

  Hugo Hamilton

  Mother, Growing Up, People

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• When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

  Henry Rollins

  Titles, Kind, Pretension

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