"The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away."

-- Anne Lamott

#Feelings Quotes #Depth Quotes #Surprise Quotes

“When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.”
“You cannot buy experience. You have to fight for it.”
“So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people - so many I lost count.”
“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”
“My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just to provoke a fight and just to provoke it like thumbing your nose at someone else and going, "What are you gonna do about it?”
“The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.”
“Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.”

Source : "Live Chat with Dana Spiotta". Interview with Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. August 23, 2011.

You may also like: