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  • The first time I did a reading/signing thing at Cody's, the woman who did the introduction said something like that, and I wasn't the only one cringing. I remember looking out into the audience and seeing people's faces and people whispering to each other, and thinking like "Ugh, can we just cancel the whole thing? I can't go out there after she said that."
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Reading Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • We've got to control our own energy. Now, not only oil and natural gas, which we've been investing in; but also, we've got to make sure we're building the energy source of the future, not just thinking about next year, but ten years from now, 20 years from now. That's why we've invested in solar and wind and biofuels, energy efficient cars.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Years Quotes
  • The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Change Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families' histories, and how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history. Then it is no longer abstract. Then it becomes a story that really means something to us as individuals.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adele Logan Alexander Quotes , Mean Quotes , Thinking Quotes