C. J. Dennis Quotes
What's your name?""Emma Gould, " she said. "What's yours?""Wanted.""By all the girls or just the law?
If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.
Honestly...this is why I write.I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me.I write for my sanity.
Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . .
Religious Americans donate more and volunteer more time to charitable institutions than do secular Americans.
All of the authoritative books on bears seem to agree on one thing: if you're close enough to a bear to cause it to change its activity pattern, you're too close, and in possible danger.
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.
I have the whole team just around the block! One call and they'll ride in here like cavalry! Riding on... robots! Giant robots! Well, not giant robots, like in Egan, but... but... big enough robots!
Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at him. “I’ll bite. How many?” “Fish, ” Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh.
You have two choices, sweetheart. Answer my questions, or get a monster new facial piercing.
Dave, would you please tell your wife she can relax. She’s got the job. It isn’t necessary for her to keep pointing out our short-comings just so you can feel better about leaving us.
Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their life.
Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.
Kid, don't miss an opportunity to laugh, because laughter is what makes the boot heels of life palatable.
Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.
Live the message, don't just read about it and preach.
...when she wakes up, there is silence, as though the day has held its breath.
Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.
Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.
What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.
Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve’s hand—they’d have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.
Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage without a scroll button?
What is most admirable about firefighters, is there reliability. When they are called, they come
When you see zombies, they're typically in a horde. A big group close together, as if they were just holding hands before you saw them and they quickly let go.
Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape? Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice
It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.
The world of literature is a sacred mirror that shows not the reality around us but the dreams and fears that reality stimulates: It’s not where we live, but life itself.
