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I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.


Patricia Highsmith

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LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I I like Patricia. I LOVE Patricia. Patricia makes COFFEE nervous.
YOU'VE GOT MAIL [Patricia Highsmith] was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a...
ANDREW WILSON The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmit...
KARIN SLAUGHTER They also filled the roles they needed to fill. I really feel like anybody can beat anybody.
NATHAN WAITE Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it...
FRANK ZAPPA It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA Early in 1967 Highsmith's agent told her why her books did not sell in paperback in America. It was,...
ANDREW WILSON In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And...
ROBERT LOPEZ We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN Love is ______ (fill in the blank yourself).
SANTOSH KALWAR How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to...
MARLEE MATLIN She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH What an author doesn't know could fill a book.
HOLLY BLACK I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy th...
DAN WELLS I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
HELEN SCHUCMAN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS I won't start a piece until I meet with the person, hear them play and hear what they like.
JENNIFER HIGDON When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is ...
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.
NORMA MCCORVEY I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a...
EMILY ROBISON What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a ...
DAVID BOWIE This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES The primary task is to help them develop a context ... which becomes the experience they already kno...
JOE FERRY I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could...
CHELY WRIGHT Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!
SILVIA HARTMANN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."

Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison....
KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON This is the spot where I will lie
When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
SARA TEASDALE I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert....
LEV GROSSMAN Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.
GRATEFUL DEAD Tea followers were among the earliest converts to the Christian faith. Takayama Ukon, a daimyo turne...
F. CALVIN PARKER I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me.
LISARAYE MCCOY-MISICK People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the...
YUVRAJ SINGH During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good.
UZOMA NNADI I know they fill quite a void there the way they've stepped in.
JACKIE MOORE I would really like to know what the psyche is of a person who litters.
LOIS BROBST In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.
CINDY CRAWFORD Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
KEN BLANCHARD The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Our eyes were like a deer in headlights. It took us a while to know we could play with them.
PAIGE CLAWSON You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.
CASSANDRA CLARE My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It ...
CANDIS CAYNE The heat in Manila is an 'I'm about to drown you in a monsoon' type of heat. Oppressive. I had a har...
FERDIE PACHECO I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are lik...
JUDD NELSON Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach fille...
R. VENNING Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach fill...
R. VENNING Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach fille...
RABBI NACHMAN Only God, Jonathan and the baby know what happened. I think if they could find something, he'd (Fost...
KATIE ADAMS I've seen a lot of political violence in my life. I know what it looks like. I know what it smel...
PAUL GREENGRASS What's in your heart? ... What disturbs you?
RICK WARREN wouldn't it be hilarious if he ran his pipes through (fill in the blank)?
PRESTON STURGES I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, ...
DUANE MICHALS My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it...
DIRK BENEDICT Maybe it’s like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sor...
JOHN STEINBECK I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'

'Always,' Carol said, smiling...
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PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Do you like her'
''Of course!' What a question! Like asking her if she believe in God.
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ALI HIGHSMITH Cameron did real good. He made the adjustment just like the rest of the linebackers before him. He t...
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PATRICIA VELASQUEZ There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like th...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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PATRICIA VELASQUEZ It takes one person to give you a big chance.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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PATRICIA SCHROEDER The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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PATRICIA SCHROEDER Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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PATRICIA RICHARDSON I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.
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PATRICIA RAE I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
PATRICIA POLACCO My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would ...
PATRICIA POLACCO I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of ...
PATRICIA POLACCO I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see won...
PATRICIA POLACCO I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
PATRICIA POLACCO I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandpare...
PATRICIA POLACCO I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books...
PATRICIA POLACCO Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.
PATRICIA POLACCO My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relat...
PATRICIA POLACCO Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergart...
PATRICIA POLACCO When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
PATRICIA POLACCO My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.
PATRICIA POLACCO My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
PATRICIA POLACCO When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always sur...
PATRICIA POLACCO I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it...
PATRICIA POLACCO Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
PATRICIA POLACCO Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to o...
PATRICIA POLACCO I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare ...
PATRICIA POLACCO What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and ...
PATRICIA POLACCO I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most he...
PATRICIA POLACCO My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o...
PATRICIA POLACCO I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in ha...
PATRICIA POLACCO I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish livin...
PATRICIA POLACCO Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
PATRICIA POLACCO Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
PATRICIA NORRIS I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're ha...
PATRICIA NORRIS As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and ...
PATRICIA NORRIS When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. W...
PATRICIA NEAL I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
PATRICIA NEAL Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gatew...
PATRICIA MILLETT What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom...
PATRICIA MILLETT I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivi...
PATRICIA MILLETT I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court withou...
PATRICIA MILLETT