Erase Quotes - Page 13

• I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

  Kate Morton

  Real, Blood, Names

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, New Jersey is kind of a mythical place. It's emblematic of a certain aspect of American life. Florida is the same way. It's where people go to recreate, to reinvent themselves. It's what California used to be. I think Florida is still a place to erase the past.

  Todd Solondz

  Past, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The art path leads you to be increasingly free. And what does "because of being increasingly free" mean? Julio Ramón Ribeyro used to say a mature novel demands the author's death, not literal death but metaphoric death, which is the author has to truly erase himself. Therefore, to be truly free, you have to break free from internal and external pressures, to erase the self completely and become a sort of medium, let the story pass through yourself and let the story dance with you.

  Rosa Montero

  Art, Mean, Path

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it causes. Mothers can turn you invisible with neglect. They can erase you with a denial, a refusal to see. Friends can deceive you. People lie. It is a cold, hard world. I do not blame Nell Hawkins for retreating from it into a madness of her own choosing.

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Hurt, Pain

  4 Copy quote

• Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.

  Ann Beattie

  Moving, Clouds, Long

  Ann Beattie (2010). “Walks With Men: Fiction”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thank god we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautréamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious. Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

  Cass McCombs

  Art, Powerful, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What's so funny?" Bella mumbled. "I got food in her hair," I told her, chortling again. "I'm not going to forget this, dog," Rosalie hissed. "S'not so hard to erase a blond's memory," I countered. "Just blow in her ear." Get some new jokes, "Rosalie snapped.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dog, Memories, Blow

  4 Copy quote

• The people who want to be segregated are part of a different generation, and they have lived their lives. They are the stakeholders and guardians of the culture. Historically, the British tried to erase them from their land, but they survived. They survived the non-acceptance of the government, so they have always been very secretive. They have created a barrier, which they don't want to lose.

  Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

  People, Different, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.

  Norman Lear

  Christian, Couple, Silly

  Source: www.avclub.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase

  Todd Barry

  Writing, Needs, Pens

  15 Copy quote

• If I apply a magnetic pulse on salt water - that's your brains by the way - it'll generate electric currents, and the electric current in the brain can erase a migraine headache.

  Robert Fischell

  Water, Brain, Pulse

  45 Copy quote

• This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, Book, Teaching

  8 Copy quote

• We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Lying, Writing

  6 Copy quote

• Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Exercise, Cake, Pie

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.102, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Love, Hero, Reality

  1969 'Those Daring Young Men In Their Flying Machines Ain't What They Used To Be!', in Pageant, Sep.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

  Gayle Forman

  New York, Talking, Going Away

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jun 21, 2014

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

  Meister Eckhart

  Life, Truth, Writing

  10 Copy quote

• time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Pain, Joy, Terrible

  50 Copy quote

• But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Would Be, Stories, Deny

  21 Copy quote

• I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can't erase the strokes you've made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate.

  Dianna Agron

  Trying, Steps, Living My Life

  FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Aug 30, 2012

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

  Tom Robbins

  Meditation, Ego, Mind

  12 Copy quote

• Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people, that can heal relationships shattered by bitterness....I f the world is to be improved, the process of love must make a change in the hearts of men. It can do so when we look beyond self to give our love to God and others, and do so with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Heart, Love Is, Men

  7 Copy quote

• This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .

  Italo Calvino

  Zero, Moving, Mean

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.15, Random House

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate it too.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Moving, Culture

  144 Copy quote

• People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Pain, Thinking, Years

  "The star gets down to earth" by Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. September 24, 2005.

  44 Copy quote

  Show source