"FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands, beats egg white under her words and the whole thing rises like a dream. It's a love story for her people and for a time and place. Read it."

-- Alexandra Fuller

#Girl Quotes #Dream Quotes #Book Quotes

“Please remember, no matter what you go through in life, somebody else might have it harder. So just appreciate. I feel like in our world today we focus on so many things that are completely pointless.”

Source : "Jessica Simpson comments on weight-gain onstage" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. January 30, 2009.
“I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.”
“Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even church workers - yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers - will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord... (see: Matt 7:21-23.]”

Source : John R. Rice (1939). “Religious But Lost”, p.5, Sword of the Lord Publishers
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”
“There's a word like overprotective to describe some parents, but no word that means the opposite. What word do you use to describe parents who don't protect enough? Underprotective? Neglectful? Self-involved? Lame? All of the above.”
“It's sort of cheesy to introduce that to the drums - those dings and dongs and bell sounds. That's definitely one of the reasons people are like 'oh yeah, they sound like Tom Waits, with those trashcan drums.' But at the same time, it sounds so good! And it introduces this... I mean, it's not tuned, but somehow it adds this extra layer of melodic texture.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.”

Source : Charles Portis (2013). “Escape Velocity”, p.161, The Overlook Press
“My work is never perfect. It always can be better but I just believe that we need to achieve a really high level of excellence. I don't believe in the "Good Enough" principle as a Christian.”

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