Quotes of: Laid-back Keyword

Throw out old clothes and shoes, and train your brain to get rid of old thoughts and ideas.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

True kindness is not necessarily giving something to someone who is down, but showing them that they still have something to give to get back up.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

It’s all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won’t let anyone else do it. That’s when you get your back up and show loyalty.

The Book Thief

The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

At the Back of the North Wind

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

Ad Reinhardt

I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I'll do the Ph.D. in art history when I'm 50, or maybe divinity school. I like teaching, too.

Jandy Nelson

She snores,” Morfyd warned. “I do no such thing!” Annwyl yelled back. “Like a bull in rutting season.” “When we get back to Garbhán Isle…don’t speak to me.” “Trust me, Annwyl, that will be a pleasure.

About a Dragon

Now, now.” I placed a hand on his back. “Jealousy colors you black, Geoff. If you wanted to be a pretty princess too, I would have bought you a crown. I’ll be back soon.

An Airship Named Desire

Having our old Gran in the car was like having a cranky 'Tassie Tiger' sitting in the back. You never knew when she might jump forward and bite you on the back of your neck.

Ants, Aunts and Funerals.: Novel

Paul says that our troubles are “light.” Granted I may not see them as light in the midst of trauma, but looking back on them, they may seem light. He also says they are “momentary.” They only last for a short time.

Hard Times

I write because if I don’t let it out of my system, I will die with guilt.

I Want Back My Sparkle!: Breaking the Global Chains of Gender Slavery.

Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?" "Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat came back to tear it into pieces, before burying ...

Racing Outside the Line

Besides, I don’t understand people who read a book for pleasure and then ruminate on the book’s ideas. Paper was invented so we wouldn’t have to keep all those thoughts in our heads.

The Rabbit Back Literature Society

Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.

River Secrets

Do you want to know how to write novels? I’ll tell you the secret: start on page one and keep going, in order, until you come to the last page. Then stop.

The Rabbit Back Literature Society

The happiest people were the ones who existed as little more than dimly conscious food-ingestion devices that enjoyed the occasional orgasm. Intelligence and thinking were really only needed for acquiring food.

The Rabbit Back Literature Society

He turns back to me, a strong hand swooping down and sculpting hair off my face, familiar looking arms curling back around me and cradling me into a chest harder and hotter than a mountain left baking in the Australian outback.

Ryan

It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love

Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business

Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you: stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are.

Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business

...every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

The Salinger Contract

I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce