Did all outcasts come to this realization at a certain point in life? That being outcast from a bogus and pornographic society actually was a good thing? I hoped so. I hoped there was an army of us out there, smiling about it that very moment.


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Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at s...
KING SOLOMON
I fantasized being a broadcaster.
LARRY KING
I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.
EARL KING
I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
EARL KING
Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I ...
EARL KING
If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kin...
EARL KING
I like to write a lot of satire.
EARL KING
I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to ...
GAYLE KING
If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
DON KING
I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the tr...
JAIME KING
In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set.
KING VIDOR
secrets are a problem, maybe the biggest problem of all. They weigh on the mind and take up space in...
STEPHEN KING
Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both ...
STEPHEN KING
My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo...
DON KING
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism wit...
FLORENCE KING
Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalme...
FLORENCE KING
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
FLORENCE KING
Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning...
FLORENCE KING
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexand...
FLORENCE KING
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been ...
FLORENCE KING
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
FLORENCE KING
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
FLORENCE KING
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right...
FLORENCE KING
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
FLORENCE KING
We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up...
GEORGIA KING
Sometimes you have to listen to a CD over and over before you really get it, but as soon as I heard ...
GAYLE KING
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
LARRY KING
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...re...
STEPHEN KING
Western civilization is the most successful civilization the world has ever seen. And some of the re...
STEVE KING
And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i...
STEPHEN KING
Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
STEPHEN KING
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not mak...
KING HUSSEIN
Maman told me that every time you smile, a very tiny bit of the smile stays stuck to your face, so a...
CLAIRE KING
He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a ...
STEPHEN KING
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed ...
STEPHEN KING
(on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always se...
STEPHEN KING
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the...
STEPHEN KING
I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredien...
GAYLE KING
Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: p...
FLORENCE KING
When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
STEPHEN KING
His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec...
STEPHEN KING
Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
FLORENCE KING
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.
B.B. KING
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING
If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
STEPHEN KING
It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.
STEPHEN KING
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and ye...
STEPHEN KING
Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the e...
STEPHEN KING
We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy...
FLORENCE KING
Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that...
STEPHEN KING