It's the national addiction: warmth on chilly winter nights, innocence on Saturday afternoons, the essence of hearth, home and blissful abandon.
Patricia Linden
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ALAN KULWICKI It's chilly in the mornings and hot in the afternoons.
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JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.
JOHN GLENN Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING On Linden, when the sun was low,
All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
And dark as winter was ...
THOMAS CAMPBELL On Saturday afternoons today, you'll find women spending time with their families, traveling or at t...
JINI REYNOLDS But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD Strange department, this. Their motto was: "The comprehension of Infinity requires infinite time." I...
ARKADY STRUGATSKY As the summer moves on, there are Saturday nights when I come home and find friends I haven't ev...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
RAYMOND E. FEIST ...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a...
JACK KEROUAC This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback)
"I know t...
AMAZON REVIEWER The mere existence of mornings,afternoons,evenings & nights shows natures love for variety.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) So. Our little pearl of warmth, our spinning orrery of lives, our island, our beloved solar system, ...
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee...
JACK KEROUAC I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the...
JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
JACK KEROUAC When we are able to break free from the imprisonment of our little, small self-thinking and dare to ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the es...
H.L. MENCKEN On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the fi...
BARBARA COOK Do not underestimate the strength it takes to be the hearth everyone turns to for warmth.
MEGAN DERR Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t...
ANTONIA PERDU There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons--
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of C...
EMILY DICKINSON There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tun...
EMILY DICKINSON There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes
EMILY DICKINSON I know that's really my job on this team, to practice hard and get everyone ready for games on Frida...
BRIAN DOELLMAN I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the cultur...
TIM COOK The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chi...
KATHLEEN QUINLAN What's Your Road, Man?
JACK KEROUAC Next time I expect you to act a little friendlier and remember that we would like to get out of here...
TRACEY WARD Merry Christmas.” he says quietly, pulling something from his back pocket.
I frown in confusi...
TRACEY WARD Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER ... I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And y...
KAREN TAYLEUR Man on Wire
LIVVY ANDERSON Everybody is on the run. Either from something or someone.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our ...
SARAH VOWELL Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow
CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Dude, marriage is the 'get out of loneliness free' card in the Monopoly game of life.
, HOME ON THE STRANGE, 11-09-07 Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a...
EDITH SITWELL What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, hear...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the co...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH During the dance of Giants, common man gets stomped on.
BEN OAK Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and...
OLIVER MARKUS She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what s...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH You may fall down when you dance on the edge but edge is the source of all miracles and mystery.
AMIT RAY May you, my friend, find God sends comforting warmth, to speed you back to your rekindled and welcom...
BRIAN HARRIS Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
ALBERT CAMUS When you consider that Mifflin lost to Linden (59-58 on Dec. 6), Linden lost to East (38-34 on Jan. ...
DARRIS GATTIS We cannot see love yet its nurturing warmth is the essence of our being and sorrow can touch our ver...
GRACE WILLOWS There's no substitute for a mother's warmth on a wintry night!!!
MUKESH KWATRA Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!...
TAMORA PIERCE Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.
ILONA ANDREWS Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who a...
RICHARD FEYNMAN It turned out to be just his sort of life in Melbourne [Florida] -- a little three-room mini apartme...
WELLS TOWER We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful
Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge
Unable to ste...
SOSUKE AIZEN Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
ALLISON BURNETT What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are co...
J.I. PACKER Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
ROBERT BRAULT Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring...
ILONA ANDREWS Well, yelling real loud, that's an important skill to have, too. You never know when you might walk ...
DIANE HAMMOND Non avevo niente da offrire a nessuno tranne la mia confusione.
JACK KEROUAC I am who I say I am,
I'm not some fantasy
of how you think you think you know
or who ...
JAMES HOWE This industry has just taken for granted people will show up on Friday and Saturday nights. If we do...
GUY WEBB The patch of lawn before it had relapsed into a hayfield; but to the left an overgrown box-garden fu...
EDITH WHARTON Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream.<...
VERA NAZARIAN The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD Learn from the Sun; on account of its warmth it doesn’t need to beg anyone to esteem it
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
JOHN MILTON Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.
DREW BARRYMORE What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he someti...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be ...
MAYA ANGELOU We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and som...
JIMMY CARTER Everybody on our team supports Ted Saskin and Trevor Linden. There's no issue whatsoever,
JOE SAKIC During one of the big snows last winter, Barbara had a handful of us over on Friday night, and Satur...
WILL NOLAN The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, bec...
JUAN GOYTISOLO She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH How to break this to him. How to let a thing be broken.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG If National leads the government after Saturday, I can promise the first thing on my agenda will be ...
JUDITH COLLINS Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'c...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.
MARTY RUBIN A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll ...
ALLAN BECK A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll ...
ALLAN BECK When you focus on being the best person you can be, you draw the best possible life, love, and oppor...
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PATRICIA MARX I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
PATRICIA MARX I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I ...
PATRICIA MARX I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alo...
PATRICIA MARX Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name ...
PATRICIA MARX Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
PATRICIA MARX For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
PATRICIA MARX I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and se...
PATRICIA MARX I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
PATRICIA MARX Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
PATRICIA MARX The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
PATRICIA MARX It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even fiv...
PATRICIA MARX Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of ...
PATRICIA MARX Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists cl...
PATRICIA MARX 'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of char...
PATRICIA MARX Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's ...
PATRICIA MARX One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels ...
PATRICIA MARX New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just bec...
PATRICIA MARX Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, wha...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and b...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended fam...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I do...
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