Bill Konigsberg Quotes

In the grand scheme of the universe, that doesn't amount to a parasite on an ant on the butt of an elephant.

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• The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Success
  • Humble

• The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Best
  • Story

• I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Long
  • Woman

• Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • Human
  • Said
  • Pressure

• As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Child
  • Young
  • Illness

• There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Child
  • Creative
  • Hunger

• To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Women
  • Me
  • Size

• Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Feelings
  • Yourself
  • Working

• I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Dark
  • Better
  • Demons

• Come! let the burial rite be read - the funeral song be sung! - An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young - A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • She
  • Song
  • Funeral

• Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

• All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Heaven
  • Practice
  • Kindness

• Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; … and I have been appointed leader of the Greeks …

  

  Arrian
  • Great
  • Done
  • Rest

• If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Political

• It sounds really cliched, but just be true to who you are.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • True

• To be honest, I can't wait to be a dad. I really hope that that's how the cookie crumbles for me.

  

  Lucas Neff
  • Hope
  • Dad

• There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  

  Don Marquis

• When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.

  

  Jermain Defoe
  • Good

• You are my heart, my head, my spine-you are the beat thumping through every line, and that’s why I write–it’s the only time we can be side by side.

  

  Coco J. Ginger
  • Heart
  • Head
  • Spine

• Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Today
  • Pet

• If you're a cheerleader, people see you. If you're a mascot, you're just helping out.

  

  Fred Willard
  • People

• Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Potential

• Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so. It's something I've always cared about. I used to just constantly thrift and make stuff and cut stuff up and borrow my dad's stuff and borrow my little brother's stuff and all that jazz. ... It's just, if something is cool, then it's cool.

  

  Lorde
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Cool

• In the grand scheme of the universe, that doesn't amount to a parasite on an ant on the butt of an elephant.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Universe
  • Scheme
  • Parasite