A.A. Allen Quotes
...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.
It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.
This is The Tonight Show. I can't tell you too much about it, other than the fact that this program is going to go on forever.
God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.
There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.
Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.
My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic.
We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.
If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away
People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.
It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.
But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.
It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.
In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.
Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.
Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.
To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.
When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.
When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.
A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.
I like to travel any chance I get, even if it's just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world.