Rebecca Makkai Quotes
I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'Rebecca Makkai
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
Ian Mckellen -
I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
Rand Paul -
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
Hans-Georg Gadamer -
I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
Zosia Mamet -
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
Wendell Phillips -
I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.
Patrick Swayze
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I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.
Ariana Grande -
Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
Walker Percy -
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
Oscar Wilde -
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
Virginia Woolf -
As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
William Lewis Safir -
Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Some cities are really boring and straight.
Johnny Marr Pretenders -
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
Sarah Jessica Parker -
I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
Judy Blume -
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can never reach a point so high that it will be unable to attain any greater increase.
Rene Descartes
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We’re so close we could touch. All it would take is for me to reach out my hand. But neither of us makes a move.
Beth Revis -
I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.
Stuart Woods -
I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'
Rebecca Makkai