Quotes
Mary H. Waldrip
A laugh is a smile that bursts.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
You never stop, except occasionally to put a fork in your mouth.
Irving can be devilishly readable-just as your attention begins to flag, he sends in a troupe of midgets, pulls back incestuous sheets, tosses off a daring piece of slapstick.
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
I remember the moment when I looked at a newsstand and stared at myself on a cover for the first time. Weird!
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.
I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.
I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.
I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday.
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.
There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.