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S.E. Hinton

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LONE STAR I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
S.E. HINTON I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina...
S.E. HINTON If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more tha...
S.E. HINTON It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
S.E. HINTON Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.
S.E. HINTON It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps w...
S.E. HINTON Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
S.E. HINTON Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you w...
S.E. HINTON I liked my books and clouds and sunsets.
S.E. HINTON They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
S.E. HINTON You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead...
S.E. HINTON the person in this picture is really me.
S.E. HINTON That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoo...
S.E. HINTON why do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy
He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop
S.E. HINTON ...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted...
S.E. HINTON You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the membe...
S.E. HINTON Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing,...
S.E. HINTON There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.
S.E. HINTON Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.
S.E. HINTON Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younge...
S.E. HINTON Stay Gold
S.E. HINTON Ponyboy, listen, don't get tough. You're not like the rest of us and don't try to be..."
What w...
S.E. HINTON He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
S.E. HINTON Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was hu...
S.E. HINTON Dally was so real he scared me.
S.E. HINTON I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob g...
S.E. HINTON I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're...
S.E. HINTON Things are rough all over.
S.E. HINTON You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you...
S.E. HINTON They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belon...
S.E. HINTON I mean, most parents would be proud of a kid like that - good-lookin' and smart and everything, but ...
S.E. HINTON He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told...
S.E. HINTON Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
S.E. HINTON nothing can wear you out like caring about people
S.E. HINTON The difference is that was then, this is now.
S.E. HINTON When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two th...
S.E. HINTON You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.
MITCH ALBOM Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.
DAN TOTHEROH Random makes you smart, random music makes your smart. So keep in touch with random, because random ...
DEYTH BANGER I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.
BILL DE BLASIO Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you ge...
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
THOMAS PYNCHON Imagine: you could say nothing, do nothing, eat nothing, touch nothing, love nothing without the oth...
MEGAN MAYHEW BERGMAN It's all about planning smart, cooking smart and shopping smart. You really can see the results.
BEVERLY MILLS Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous f...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be...
ASHLEY TISDALE God’s finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
GEORGE MACDONALD Simple and plain things can touch your heart very easily! If you can be simple and plain, you can to...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Our tournament is great, because you can come and get up close to the pros and get autographs after ...
JUDY MCDERMOTT Here's a tip. If you touch a girl, even as joke, and she pushes you off, leave... her... alone. Don'...
JAY ASHER You get the crowd pumping, you get momentum and you feel there's nothing the offense can do to stop ...
ROBERT MATHIS If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
AFRICAN PROVERB If you want loyalty - get a dog. If you want loyalty and attention - get a smart dog.
GRANT FAIRLEY I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show the...
CORY HARDRICT It's completely anonymous. There's no way for someone to get in touch with you unless you elect to h...
MATT STRAUSS If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the suns...
THICH NHAT HANH Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.
CRAIG FERGUSON People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place...
TAWNI O'DELL When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shou...
BUZZ ALDRIN Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the...
JANE BRYANT QUINN Many people will often say you are a Smart, you are a Genius, give them a chance and they will say i...
DAVID SIKHOSANA If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are...
MOTHER TERESA These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may hav...
STEVE JOBS Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind...
KENKO YOSHIDA If you go to a theme park, there will be so many rides. You will get an exciting experience in each ...
VIJAY SETHUPATHI The Trap. If you can get in but cannot get out then it is a TRAP. And if you can do nothing about it...
RAJAN PERUMAL Oh… oh… lookacha you…Look yourself… trying to get smart.
DEYTH BANGER Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
OSCAR WILDE If you ain't smart, diligence can solve it.
TOBA BETA Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.
DWAYNE JOHNSON I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENE ...you don’t have to choose between smart and sexy. You can have both. You are both.
SOPHIA AMORUSO No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no na...
DAYANANDA SARASWATI If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of ...
MARIO CUOMO THOUGHTS COME AND GO, WHAT CAN YOU CATCH AFTER ALL?
DEYTH BANGER There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.
JAMES COBURN You still got it, Hatch. Nobody can touch you, man.
CHAD KASSEM You ever get the feeling all hell’s about to break loose and there’s nothing you can do about it...
ALI VALI Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing yo...
JANE BRYANT QUINN Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel.
BIJOU PHILLIPS Yoga increases body awareness, the body/mind connection. We live in such a cerebral world, yoga can ...
LAURIE SABOURIN Touch is critical for life, even as adults. Very few people get touched often enough so touching can...
TINA KAHN Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
HANNAH ARENDT It's an event that a lot of people can't participate in. You can't get in here if you are just a reg...
DAVID BOHRMAN Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action. When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can e...
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
JAMES RANDI If you buy smart, it can be a great investment.
HOWARD ROSENKRANTZ Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
ALAN ALDA We can't get in touch with anybody we need to get in touch with.
KRISTIN BREWER I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid t...
AARON ALLSTON Ben is tough and smart and can also get to the cage. A full season from Ben elevates the entire team...
DOM STARSIA You can connect with friends you may have lost touch with.
ASHLEY GLOVER Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
RUMI Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI You're a girl! You're strong, you're immaculate, you're smart, and you can do ANYTHING. It's in you!
IFEOLUWA EGBETADE Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses...
HANNAH ARENDT Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
GORDON ATKINSON You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around...
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