A.C. Anderson Quotes

In any miracle, chase the causation back far enough and eventually you'll find yourself irrepressibly singing in praise of the marvelous goodness of God's creation.

I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...

Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the impact, can't smell the blood.

The Law of Unconditional Loving is a tough taskmaster. Once we taste the fruits of unconditional loving, we cannot go backward, we cannot become "unaware" ever again.

And that’s the problem. When you’realive, people can hurt you. It’s easier to crawl into a bonecage or a snowdrift of confusion. It’s easier to lock everybodyout.But it’s a lie.

I don't think there's too much normal out there anymore. Though there's still plenty of average to go around.

I hate winter. I’ve lived in Syracuse my whole life and I hate winter. It starts too early and ends too late. No one likes it.

And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.

The body is not a task to be completed but a gift we receive from God himself.

When I am in the vibration of prosperity and abundance I am cosmically connected to my world and the Universe.

Fred’s vacuum-rated armor protected him from the smell of viscera, but it reported it to him as a slight increase in atmospheric methane levels. The stench of death reduced to a data point.

Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it.That is all. We eat it.

Bring out others’ better side and they are more likely to see and support yours.

And there was a beautiful view, But nobody could see.'Cause everyone in the Island was saiyng, Look at me! Look at me!

I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn’t touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn’t drown.

I’ve yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn’t become still more complicated.

I walked and walked, sometimes with an objective- a friend's house, a shop, the church or school- but mostly at random, to outrun oppression.

Rules will break you as often as you break them. But I guess that’s okay.Maybe I’m done with rules.For now, anyway.I think I will just be. I will exist. And see what happens.

One had to be careful with elbows and boys

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

I have to go. Boss hasthis weird idea that I should actually work while he’s payingme.

From the point of view of the playwright then the essence of a tragedy or even of a serious play is the spiritual awakening or regeneration of his hero.

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.

What can you say when your husband says: 'You can't expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older."

Sometimes I feel that I'm not just aging . . . I'm decomposing.

It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked "Do you need any large donations for new buildings?"

What is to be got at to make the air sweet the ground good under the feet can only be got at by failure trial again and again and again failure.

Remember no matter how many candles you blow out this year there's one gal who will always think of you as young strong and handsome - your mother.

Let's face it there's lots of spoiled kids out there . . . because you can't spank Grandma.

I love being a great-grandparent but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent.

Nature has been for me for as long as I remember a source of solace inspiration adventure and delight a home a teacher a companion.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much much better.

I'm not that much into working out. My philosophy - no pain no pain.

As long as you keep a person down some part of you has to be down there to hold him down so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

In real love you want the other person's good.

Speeches are like steer horns - a point here a point there and a lot of bull in between.

After such an introduction I can hardly wait to hear what I'm going to say.

We're the best team in baseball. But not by much.

Power is like a woman you want to stay in bed with forever.

The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.

Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being?

If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is all life to become important to him?

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass make love work when they have to bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

Players have two things to do: Play and keep their mouths shut.

General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too."

He who laughs last thinks slowest.

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.