Quotes of: Albert-einstein Keyword

I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

Defending Jacob

Huge Jackman has divorced his wife and happened upon my picture in some old article and decided that I'm the woman for him? ~ Susan

Dark Side of the Moon

This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]

Devotion: A Memoir

[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand.

Day After Night

People don’t break up because someone’s family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.

The Divorce Party

Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?

The Divorce Party

Some people think what you’re supposed to do in life is fill yourself up with loads of things like names, the more the better. But that’s not how it works.

Duplex

If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.

The Devil in Silver

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way; but west Texas had given her something more concrete upon which to dread the afterlife.

Dreadful Skin

She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

At home, they'd clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn't fall. Here, they bandaged one another's broken wings, helped each other fly.

Don't Breathe a Word

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

Don't Breathe a Word

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America