Allison > Allison's Quotes

“The substance of patriotism matters more than the symbols.”
― Barack Obama

“Make sure that when you touch the other person, all your five senses are working, because sex has a life of its own. The moment you begin, you’re no longer in control; it takes control of you. And whatever you bring to it, your fears, your desires, your sensibility will remain. That’s why people become impotent. When you have sex, take with you to bed only love and your senses, all five of them. Only then will you experience communion with God.”
― Paolo Coehlo

“Sex only makes people more like themselves. A powerful, secretive woman becomes only more powerful and more secretive in the throes of passion.”
― Bee Ridgway, The River of No Return

“Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs.”
― Ted Tally, Terra Nova

“And I think, "I'm so fucking lonely". I go home and cry for a while. I am almost 32. That's not old especially in New York. But the fact is it has been years since I even liked someone. So how likely is it I'll meet someone I love enough to marry? I'm tired of not knowing who I'll be with, or if I'll be with anyone.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Perhaps she had not succeeded in 'inspiring' any wonderful ambitions in her pupils, but she had taught them, more by her own sweet personality than by all her careful precepts, that it was good and necessary in the years that were before them to live their lives finely and graciously, holding fast to truth and courtesy and kindness, keeping aloof from all that savoured of falsehood and meanness and vulgarity. They were, perhaps, all unconscious of having learned such lessons; but they would remember and practice them long after they had forgotten the capital of Afghanistan and the dates of the Wars of the Roses.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

“There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“You are what what you eat eats.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I'm a fucking actor! They hand me a script. I act. I'm here for entertainment. Basically, when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.”
― Brad Pitt

“Do you or do you not like wearing earrings in your mouth that will one day smell like your ex-boyfriend's dick?”
― Carrie Fisher, The Best Awful

“I thought you were supposed to be at home, waiting for your boyfriend to come back a hero.”

“As you may have gathered,” I say, walking up a step, “that was never going to happen.”
― Veronica Roth

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
― Carrie Fisher

“There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.”
― Carrie Fisher

“I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

“Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.”
― Diane Ackerman , A Natural History of the Senses

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work harder than they would for money; but they don’t necessarily take that attitude. They feel they’re working for nothing, and doing a great kindness to us thereby; and if we seem ungrateful they will work slowly and make mistakes. It will be best to rule them with a light touch.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“How can my ankles and arms be obscene?”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty