I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the art...
EMMA CLINE Poor Sasha. Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of live. How badly they need it, and h...
EMMA CLINE So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing e...
EMMA CLINE That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you...
EMMA CLINE Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with bein...
EMMA CLINE Gran parte del deseo, a esa edad, era un acto deliberado. Nos empeñábamos en difuminar los bordes ...
EMMA CLINE I was almost a wife but lost the man. I was almost recognisable as a friend. And then I wasn't. The ...
EMMA CLINE It was a gift. What did I do with it? Life didn't accumulate as I'd once imagined. I graduated from ...
EMMA CLINE That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic t...
EMMA CLINE It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as those kind of girls who belong...
EMMA CLINE At that age I looked at women with brutal and emotionless judgement. Assessing the slope of their br...
EMMA CLINE The hatred that vibrated beneath the surface of my girl's face-- I think Suzanne recognized it. Of c...
EMMA CLINE They didn't have very far to fall - I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability t...
EMMA CLINE She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at colouring in those dis...
EMMA CLINE Twisting the nipple so I inhaled audibly, and he hesitated for a moment but kept going. His dick sme...
EMMA CLINE Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with bein...
EMMA CLINE nobody thought until later that strangers might be anything but friends. Our love for one another bo...
EMMA CLINE Break down the self, offer yourself up like dust to the universe.
EMMA CLINE At that age, I was, first and foremost, a thing to be judged, and that shifted the power in every in...
EMMA CLINE That was the strange thing - I didn't hate my father. He had wanted something. Like I wanted Suzanne...
EMMA CLINE Everyone, later, would find it unbelievable that anyone involved in the ranch would stay in that sit...
EMMA CLINE That seemed fair to me, as if fairness were a measure the universe cared anything about.
EMMA CLINE Adults always teased me about having boyfriends, but there was an age where it was no longer a joke,...
EMMA CLINE No one had ever looked at me before Suzanne, not really, so she became my definition. Her gaze softe...
EMMA CLINE We had been with the men, we had let them do what they wanted. But they would never know the parts o...
EMMA CLINE ...I was confusing familiarity with happiness. Because that was there even when love wasn't...
EMMA CLINE Life a continuous backing away from the edge.
EMMA CLINE So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing e...
EMMA CLINE I should have known that when men warn you to be careful, often they are warning you of the dark mov...
EMMA CLINE My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word...
EMMA CLINE Mitch studied me with a questioning, smug smile. Men did it so easily, that immediate parceling of v...
EMMA CLINE I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd understand the scal...
EMMA CLINE They didn’t have very far to fall—I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability...
EMMA CLINE She was lost in that deep and certain sense that there was nothing beyond her own experience. As if ...
EMMA CLINE And now I was older, and the wishful props of future selves had lost their comforts. I might always ...
EMMA CLINE They didn't have very far to fall--I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to...
EMMA CLINE You wanted things and you couldn't help it, because there was only your life, only yourself to wake ...
EMMA CLINE Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little mo...
EMMA CLINE A lot of things in the house were broken or forgotten: the kitchen clock stopped, a closet doorknob ...
EMMA CLINE Hatred was easy. The permutations constant over the years: A stranger at a fair who palmed my crotch...
EMMA CLINE I'd seen old Yardley Slickers- the makeup now just a waxy crumble- sell for almost one hundred dolla...
EMMA CLINE Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.
PATSY CLINE I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.
PATSY CLINE I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.
PATSY CLINE My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!
PATSY CLINE Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.
PATSY CLINE I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.
PATSY CLINE I'm gonna walk a little bit of dog.
PATSY CLINE I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and ...
PATSY CLINE In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from ...
PATSY CLINE I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.
PATSY CLINE I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.
PATSY CLINE I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.
PATSY CLINE Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for ...
PATSY CLINE Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.
PATSY CLINE The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
PATSY CLINE I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to ma...
PATSY CLINE I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have ...
PATSY CLINE You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Tak...
PATSY CLINE I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I ...
PATSY CLINE If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anythin...
PATSY CLINE I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.
PATSY CLINE It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.
PATSY CLINE I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
PATSY CLINE I'm gonna be something one of these days.
PATSY CLINE Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I gues...
PATSY CLINE Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who w...
PATSY CLINE We just wouldn't let anybody beat us is all...we were an exceptional group.
BILL CLINE It is probably the single most significant step in the history of the exchange.
BILL CLINE Larger hubs of buyers and sellers combined together make it easier for them to find one another.
BILL CLINE It may just simply not be cost-effective to maintain the physical trading floor.
BILL CLINE I think they have a limited amount of room to raise prices and fees. There's only so much they can d...
BILL CLINE They are going to turn a lot of attention to a growth strategy ... striving to meet the investor gro...
BILL CLINE I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari...
ERNEST CLINE I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.
ERNEST CLINE My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and D...
ERNEST CLINE It's always good for Scots to get together. There will be a toast to the queen and a toast to the pr...
DALE CLINE It shows a visual, graphic alternative to thirsty turf grass.
ROB CLINE The transaction level is a substantially higher level of abstraction than standard behavioral level,...
BRETT CLINE I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect wit...
ERNEST CLINE You couldn't get into that gym...when the B game started that place was packed.
BILL CLINE I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '...
ERNEST CLINE I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do a...
ERNEST CLINE That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up ...
ERNEST CLINE We're very east Texas people,
PATSY CLINE we're choosy who we work with.
PATSY CLINE "Here's to those who wish us well and those who don't can go to hell." - Patsy Cline
PATSY CLINE You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've t...
PATSY CLINE In college, I got my roommate into this. It's a lot of fun. I love history. The historical aspect of...
DALE CLINE I know it was a shady thing that went on, but this little town has been shady for a long time.
BILL CLINE It's not one of those things where we baby-sit them for a weekend. It's a total training process.
BILL CLINE If [the detainees] had an opportunity to get at me, they'd get at me. If they have the opportunity t...
BILL CLINE You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.
ERNEST CLINE At the end of the day, I was still a virgin, all alone in a dark room, humping a lubed-up robot.
ERNEST CLINE You just watch them in awe.
LARRY CLINE He stressed the interpersonal relationship of the doctor and patient,
DAVID CLINE The problem here is easy access to a firearm. Here is someone who never should have had a gun that h...
PHIL CLINE Even humanity's lack of concern for its rampant overpopulation problem now made a terrible kind of s...
ERNEST CLINE We played very hard and unfortunately came up on the short end of the score. I am very proud of our ...
TIM CLINE If Jacksonville would have won, we would have had to play at West Brunswick (today) to determine who...
DIRK CLINE It was a classic battle out there today. There were a lot of close battles on every court; lots of l...
DIRK CLINE I feel like smacking you in the mouth, dude, I really do. I can't even look at you. I tried to help ...
GEORGE CLINE we are not prepared at this time to say that any one person is responsible for these homicides. This...
PHIL CLINE There's really only one way out and one way in. Once he's inside and by that front door, he's got th...
PHIL CLINE He got up. He had the gun. They ordered him to drop the gun. He refused to drop the gun, and that's ...
PHIL CLINE We are not prepared at this time to say that any one person is responsible for these homicides, ... ...
PHIL CLINE Our big priority now is to come to terms with the building and meet the deadline before the county i...
GEORGE CLINE When I started, we still filed checks by signature. We didn't even have account numbers.
GEORGE CLINE I knew he had a short temper, but I never thought he would take something that far. He could have co...
GEORGE CLINE People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.
ERNEST CLINE In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyri...
ERNEST CLINE Shit!" I heard Diehl shout over the comm. "I just lost my gorram shields because I'm already out of ...
ERNEST CLINE He couldn't put up the numbers if he didn't learn to hit. He knows what pitches to lay off and what ...
LARRY CLINE Bruce hit them over the light poles, and people started following him just to see him hit them.
LARRY CLINE I was his mobile pitching machine.
LARRY CLINE I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at...
ERNEST CLINE I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common w...
ERNEST CLINE I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really k...
ERNEST CLINE I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly ...
ERNEST CLINE I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'
ERNEST CLINE I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydre...
ERNEST CLINE I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd ne...
ERNEST CLINE Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any b...
ERNEST CLINE Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I...
ERNEST CLINE If they combine a Schuyler-Brown FSA, they still have a NRCS office sitting in each county. We work ...
ROB CLINE I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.
ERNEST CLINE I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.
EMMA ROBERTS Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.
EMMA BULL I love vintage shopping, I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most ama...
EMMA ROBERTS I don't think I will ever get tired of wearing pink.
EMMA BUNTON Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested...
EMMA GOLDMAN Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is you...
EMMA WATSON We want to empower people to take action and make change and translate their passion into really doi...
EMMA WATSON I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
EMMA WATSON If not me, who? If not now, when?
EMMA WATSON It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell...
EMMA WATSON It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I�...
EMMA WATSON I am willing to be seen.
I am willing to speak up.
I am willing to keep going.
I am...
EMMA WATSON It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have fai...
EMMA WATSON I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.
EMMA WATSON Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be wh...
EMMA WATSON The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.
EMMA WATSON What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.
EMMA WATSON I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.
EMMA WATSON I'm willing to be seen.
I'm willing to speak up.
I'm willing to keep going.
I'm willi...
EMMA WATSON I'm reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and...
EMMA WATSON If not me, who?
If not now, when?
EMMA WATSON If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing thin...
EMMA WATSON I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have ama...
EMMA CAULFIELD I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an ...
EMMA WATSON Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his ...
EMMA WILLARD I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people ...
EMMA WATSON The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think ...
EMMA FORREST I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would...
EMMA STONE His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufactu...
EMMA WILLARD In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discont...
EMMA GOLDMAN Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love...
EMMA GOLDMAN If I'm having a really bad day, I always have a girlfriend - or even a guy friend - who I can ca...
EMMA ROBERTS I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.
EMMA WATSON Bandwagon and all that it is is such a huge passion of mine. We're already bouncing around ideas...
EMMA CAULFIELD I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces....
EMMA STONE I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I c...
EMMA STONE I want freedom, the right to self expression, everybodys right to beautiful radiant things. Anarchis...
EMMA GOLDMAN The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed a...
EMMA MCLAUGHLIN It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulat...
EMMA GOLDMAN Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love...
EMMA GOLDMAN If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
EMMA GOLDMAN Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-r...
EMMA GOLDMAN I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
EMMA GOLDMAN You can’t get a reaction from someone who doesn’t give a shit.
EMMA CHASE ... where there's one there's ten.'
That's crazy math.
EMMA DONOGHUE Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
EMMA DONOGHUE She talks like you. It’s not every day you hear a four-year-old say Prince Charming is a douchebag...
EMMA CHASE It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzi...
EMMA GOLDMAN In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscen...
EMMA GOLDMAN Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested...
EMMA GOLDMAN I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behav...
EMMA THOMPSON Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
...
EMMA LAZARUS No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is ...
EMMA GOLDMAN Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be free,
The wretched refus...
EMMA LAZARUS Morality and its victim, the mother -- what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrib...
EMMA GOLDMAN Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
EMMA GOLDMAN No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a ...
EMMA GOLDMAN Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
EMMA GOLDMAN The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vit...
EMMA GOLDMAN Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
EMMA GOLDMAN Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King...
EMMA GOLDMAN When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
EMMA GOLDMAN Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elo...
EMMA GOLDMAN The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the ...
EMMA GOLDMAN The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And y...
EMMA CARLETON Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possib...
EMMA GOLDMAN Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
EMMA GOLDMAN To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods a...
EMMA GOLDMAN Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and wi...
EMMA GOLDMAN Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains t...
EMMA GOLDMAN Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the lib...
EMMA GOLDMAN The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopu...
EMMA GOLDMAN It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a mora...
EMMA GOLDMAN We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people ...
EMMA BUNTON