Denise Lauron > Denise's Quotes

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Martin Luther King, Jr. once said “You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.”
― Jill Angie, Running with Curves: Why You’re Not Too Fat to Run, and the Skinny on How to Start Today

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Craziness doesn’t take a holiday, though.”
― Arlene Schindler, Moms are Nuts

“I feel bad for anyone who can’t have children, my mom once emailed me.  What will they do for aggravation?”
― Arlene Schindler, Moms are Nuts

“I am thankful for your bare feet,” I manage to say. “For I cannot imagine any shoes that might have complemented such an outfit.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“One chicken cannot sit on the whole world’s eggs.”
― Carrie Anne Noble, The Mermaid's Sister

“The idea that there are infinite possibilities contained inside the books, that anything could happen. People”
― J.D. Hawkins, Confessions of a Bad Boy

“You need to be good at failing to be successful. ”
― Steve Walker, Where The Crazy People Swim

“a goal without a plan is no more than a cloud,”
― Steve Walker, Where The Crazy People Swim

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
― John Lennon

“if your life is already pretty good, there’s not much reason to go around hurting others.”
― Shanna Swendson, Enchanted, Inc.

“People with low self-esteem seldom try to take over the world.” Suddenly,”
― Shanna Swendson, Much Ado About Magic

“On those early mornings, it is dark and normal people are still in bed.”
― Steve Walker, Where The Crazy People Swim

“The goal is just to finish.”
― Steve Walker, Where The Crazy People Swim

“One small failure or even large success does not define any of us.”
― Steve Walker, Where The Crazy People Swim

“Do cool stuff.  No outrageous or outlandish idea is too big to try.”
― Steve Walker, Where The Crazy People Swim

“Even if it doesn’t end just how we want it to, everything will be fine.”
― Amie Stuart, Even Cowboys Get The Blues

“He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt,”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“The mind of a soldier wasn’t the mind of a mother, but she wasn’t a mother anymore.”
― Sarai Walker, Dietland

“Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“her first published book, Once (1965).”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“quiet as a drunken church mouse,”
― R.J. Silver, My Third-World Girlfriend

“Mr Sussman; you are not a Jedi Knight. Kindly amend the details in Box 3”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“the box marked “Sex” is not an invitation”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“History – the new sex.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Attention span of a – what was I saying?”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Mescal turns out to be a drink that tastes as if someone has put their cigarette out in it.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less