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“As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.”

I Can Remember Forever Fashion Fewer Items Dimes Extravagant

Author:Rachel Zoe

“I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared, but we also need to think about accessories, perfumes and other items. In sum, I never stop.”

Thinking Men Needs Shows Prepared Collections Elsewhere Perfume Items Accessories

Author:Alber Elbaz

“Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.”

Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”

Helpful Items Manuals Discworld

Book:Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)

Source: Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)

“As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.”

Ifs Men Writing Might Lost Felt Responsible Unexpected Secretary Worldly Items Enchantment

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”

Way Needs Has Beens Made Moments Past Political Politics Party Opinion Records Minutes Expression News Evidence Clean Predictions Documentaries Items Up To Date Palimpsest

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in the externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things, but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even if it's painful and you're afraid.”

Ifs Thinking Long Shows Belief Simple Circumstances Painful Active Lists Teeth Distraction Afternoon Sober Items Accumulation Acquisition Numbing Anesthesia Strength And Hope

Book:Drinking: A Love Story

Source: Drinking: A Love Story

“Fletch then kisses me on the forehead before opening the cabinet under the coffeemaker to grab placemats and napkins. Retrieving these items is his job because I kind of don't like to bend. I also refuse to carry anything heavier than my purse.”

Kind Jobs Kissing Refuse Opening Items Foreheads Purses Cabinets Kiss Me Napkins

Author:Jen Lancaster

“Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.”

Enough Sleep Silence Emotional Quiet Intellectual Karma Noise Items

Book:Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar

Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar

“Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.”

Art Stories Directors Theater Scripts Latter Items Avant Garde

Book:2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?”

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.”

People Ifs Want Looks Important Matter Used Names Materials Shapes Creating Items Zest Gusto

Author:Ray Bradbury

“But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.”

Thinking Would Be Courses Mistake Nice Television Adults Rings Practicals Knees Diamond Tape Items Duct Tape Television Commercials Diamond Rings Bad Mistake

Author:Nancy Werlin

“The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. No one is fond of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider how much you'd have to hate free will to come up with a political platform that advocates killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A callous pragmatist might favor abortion and capital punishment. A devout Christian would sanction neither. But it takes years of therapy to arrive at the liberal view.”

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

“She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing.”

Thinking Should Soul Dark Ruined Items Ponds Funky Dank

Author:Janet Fitch

“I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.”

People Use Feelings Decided Practicals Items Sweaters Happy People Wrenches

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.”

“The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I myself was one such item...the things in the world did not necessarily cause my overwhelming feelings; the feelings were inside me, beneath my skin, behind my ribs, withing my skull. They were even, to some extent, under my control.”

People World Mind Feelings Causes Behinds Skins Collections Overwhelming Items Skulls Ribs

Author:Annie Dillard

“One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.”

Ifs Reason Today Asks Too Much Tomorrow Concern Busy Lists Yesterday Gods Will Agendas Submit Items Too Busy Yesterday And Tomorrow

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks. it's hard at times but it makes a kid strongs in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good and bad to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.”

People Way Hard Kids Left Grows Results Behinds Teach Growing Up Offers Sticks Clothings Household Unnecessary Items Left Behind Good And Bad Comes And Goes Friends Come And Go

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Would I be as strong as that once I did that thing Christophe was talking about? Blooming? Would I smell like a bakery item? Or was that just him? Did he use pie filling for cologne?”

Use Strong Talking Smell Pie Filling Items Blooming Cologne Bakeries

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.”

Animal Goes On Miracle Average Vegetables Vacation Traveled Shelves Items Groceries Annuals

Book:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies.”

“I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never to be reopened or reread. And I could say goodbye to them, wish them well, bless them somehow for their good thoughts. A handshake in the street, a dropped item picked up and retrieved and handed back, or a friendly wave from the distant window, a nod, a smile, a moment when the eyes lock over the antics of a child.”

Wells Children Littles Moments Home Eye Past Girl Lost Wish Streets Becoming Window Letters Wave Goodbye Friendly Bless Locks Items Saying Goodbye Good Thoughts Handshake Becoming One Antics

Author:Alice Sebold

“I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.”

Kind Home School Values House Behinds Break Equal Skins Thieves Stolen Items Slick

Author:Holly Black

“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”

“HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment”

Found Lost Party Advice Rate Entertainment Endless Paranormal Reasonable Investigation Items Wizards Purses No Love Consulting Dresden Harry Dresden

Book:Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files

Source: Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files

“The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness.”

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi—much less try to develop a meaningful relationship—since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky.”

Source: Heir Apparent

“Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you require I must be going" or "I'm sorry but I'm going to have to ask you to leave, please" or even "excuse me but I believe you have mistaken my home for your own and my valuable belongings for yours and I must ask you to return the items in question to me and leave my home after untying me from this chair, as I'm unable to do it myself, if it's not too much trouble.”

People Ifs Believe Home Used Asks I Believe Too Much Trouble Return Please Sorry Excuse Valuable Phrases Chairs Belonging I'm Sorry Mistaken Polite Items Excuse Me

Author:Daniel Handler

“Sir, this lane is for ten items or less. I’m counting thirteen items in your cart, including that hemorrhoid cream. And while hemorrhoids might give you a reason to be nasty, they don’t give you a reason to be in this lane.”

Giving Reason Might Ten Including Cream Nasty Items Counting Lanes Thirteen Carts Hemorrhoids

Author:J.A. Konrath

“Would you like to cross another item off this list today?" "I should like that very much. Which do you propose?" "I think it's time to try riding astride". "You can't mean..." "Oh, but I do, indeed, mean, Empress.”

Thinking Should Trying Mean Today Crosses Lists Riding Items Propose Empresses

Author:Sarah MacLean

“That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.”

Feels Littles Persons Stills Mark Items Burgers Handmade

Author:Aimee Bender

“Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.”

Ifs Mean Doe Said Waiting President Minutes Atheist Spending Bunch Knees Items

Author:George H. W. Bush

“The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun came out, or you could set it to MANUEL [sic], in which case, we assumed, a small, incompetent Spanish waiter came and did it for you.”

Two Turns Cases Sun Sea Setting Settings Favourite Electric Items Incompetent Overlooked Waiter Balconies

Author:Douglas Adams

“I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight.” My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: “When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is any place where there are arms that can hold you, that will not let you go.”

“When something needs to be ironed I put it in the ironing basket. If a year goes by and the item is still in the basket I throw the item away. This is a good system since eventually I end up only with clothes that don’t need ironing.”

Ifs Needs Years Stills Ends Clothes Items Baskets

Book:Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

Source: Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

“Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that the Toscans required to finance and equip their large armies. Even more important, Toscans had become inordinately fond of kafay, the rich coffee grown by the Arridi.”

Important Country Rich Needed Red Gold Army Coffee Finance Desert Iron Reserves Items

Author:John Flanagan

“I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.”

Littles Would Be Clothes Understood Skins Dating Staying Items Grapes Slippery Triangles Undressing

Author:Aimee Bender

“That’s nice of you, but it’s not necessary to loan me a car.” “I loan you cars all the time.” “And I almost always destroy them or lose them. I have terrible luck with cars.” “Working at Rangeman is a high-stress job, and you’re one of our few sources of comic relief. I give you a car and my men start a pool on how long it will take you to trash it. You’re a line item in my budget under entertainment.”

Men Giving Long Jobs Loses Lines Nice Car Source Terrible Stress Luck Entertainment Comic Budgets Relief Pool Items Trash Loan Comic Relief

Author:Janet Evanovich

“His entired life bundled into wenty refuse sacks. His and her memories bundle away in Holly's mind. Each item unearthed dust, tears, laughter and memories. She bagged the items, cleared the dust, wiped her eyes and filed away the memories.”

Mind Eye Memories Tears Laughter Refuse Dust Her Eyes Items Bundles Hollies

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.”

Ifs Trying Matter Enough Moments Next Millions Lists Over You Absurdity Abstraction Items Trust Me Keep Trying Things That Matter Only Thing That Matters

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.”

Ifs Has Beens Ideas Stories Certain Hurt Silent Bottom Insight I Realized Despite Gossip Entertaining Observers Items Participants Getting Hurt

Author:Sherwood Smith

“An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.”

Looks Might Normal Surface Items Perfectly Normal

Book:Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

“I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color that simply keeps being itself. A color that sinks more somberly than any other color, yet asserts itself more than all other colors. It's a passionate gallant color. Anything is wonderful if it transcends things rather than being halfway.”

Ifs Black Wonderful Color Clothes Passionate Items Halfway Jewelry Gallant

Author:Yana Toboso

“Fine. You win. I quit. You two deal with this. I’m going home. Packing up all my personal items, and when you, Caleb, end up dead because the coach has your jockstrap or something else I didn’t steal but someone else did, don’t call me. I’m done and I’m going to hide in a bunker until all of this is over with.” – Nick “I hate you, Nick.” – Caleb “Feels mutual, Demon.” – Nick”

Feels Two Ends Done Home Hate Winning Deals Fine I Hate Coaches Quitting Stealing Demon Mutual Call Me Hate You Items I Hate You I Quit Going Home Packing Bunkers Caleb Packing Up

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese and bacon, sworn off Burger King, and when I wouldn't do the same she gave me back my ring. I stood there by the romaine lettuce, feeling my heart pine. Wishing that this meatless beauty still would be all mine. She turned around to go to checkout, fifteen items or less. And I knew this was the last go-round, so this is what I said. ... "Don't you ever give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.”

“Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.”

Stories Certain Hurt Bottom Despite Gossip Entertaining Items Getting Hurt Crown Duel

Author:Sherwood Smith

“It’s up to you to fill it. Find things that mean something to you, that represent times where you’ve overcome an obstacle, learned something important. Put those items in the bag and they’ll help you find your strength.’ ‘I’m not sure if that’s going to help much.’ Unless I put a brick in it and nail Brandy between the eyes.”

Ifs Mean Important Helping Eye Overcoming Obstacles Not Sure Bags Nails Bricks Items Up To You Brandy

Book:Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven

Source: Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven

“Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.”

People Ifs Would Be Poor Opinion Stealing Items

Author:Julian Barnes

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