Reports Quotes - Page 39

• I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Prayer, Maps

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• I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Reality, Romance

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.77, Penguin

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• I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Imagination, Stories

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.131, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Men, Done

  1598 Dogberry to Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.1, l.208-12.

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• My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to report him for child molesting. He had never molested me, but I wanted to have a party that weekend and needed him out of the house.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Children, Father

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I was listening," the king said, aggrieved. "I closed my eyes to listen better." "What did you hear?" "I'm not sure," he said." That's why I was listening so closely. I may have to ask the baron to repeat some parts of his report on his grain tax." "I am sure you can arrange an appointment." "I am sure I can too.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Eye, Listening

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• I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Life, Teacher, Jobs

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?

  Sloane Crosley

  School, Eye, Artist

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• In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Morning, New York, Sleep

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's behind it, to see the bleak unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words but if we can, into rhythm and blues. You can't do this without discovering your own true voice, and you can't find your true voice and peer behind the door and report honestly and clearly to us if your parents are reading over your shoulder.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Reading, Writing

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.198, Anchor

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• However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how the true artist-seer actually dies? I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.

  J. D. Salinger

  Suicide, Loneliness, Artist

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• 'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.'
  'What?'
  'In winter,' Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.'

  John Crowley

  Summer, Winter, Love Is

  "Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament". Book by John Crowley. Book 5, Chapter 4, 1981.

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• You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'Yeah,' said Zaphod, 'but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' 'THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'No, just A Zaphod Beeblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?' 'But sir,' it squealed, 'I just heard on the sub-ether radio report. It said you were dead...' 'Yeah, that's right, I just haven't stopped moving yet.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Want, Radio

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• But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn.... Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more varied carbon diet: the animals they eat still eat grass (until recently, Mexicans regarded feeding corn to livestock as a sacrilege); much of their protein comes from legumes; and they still sweeten their beverages with cane sugar. So that's us: processed corn, walking.

  Michael Pollan

  Lying, Animal, Hair

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• The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Mean, Acceptance

  "The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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• Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.

  Kató Lomb

  Children, Average, Car

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• After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out human civilization. The anchorwoman had said it was not merely possible but probable. At the end of the report, she smiled.

  Dean Koontz

  Mistake, Civilization, Wiping Out

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.335, Bantam

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• On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.

  Sharon Creech

  Night, Might, Pandora's Box

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• Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds like a sunshine harpsicord. I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things A Computer Magic A Writing Letters to Those You Love A Finding out about Fish A Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty A+!

  Richard Brautigan

  Beautiful, Rain, Writing

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It's not a big deal." Anger replaced my fear. I didn't like being treated like a child. "Stop calling me that. You don't even know what you're talking about." "Sure I do. I had to do a report on the R.S.S.R. last year.

  Richelle Mead

  Children, Talking, Years

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.69, Penguin

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• The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Looks, Way, Waste

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

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• He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story

  Ted Dekker

  War, Games, Boards

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Bone Man's Daughters”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  God, Giving, Christian Inspirational

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• In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication to Isaac Asimov from Arthur C. Clarke in his book Report on Planet Three]

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Book, Dedication, Three

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• He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Hard Work, Angel

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