I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.
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DEYTH BANGER It's always good to have things that happen only once every 55 years. I didn't even realize I hit tw... CORY SULLIVAN I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me. JOHN LENNON Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list... THOMAS HARRIS I saw it rolling toward me and I knew I had to have it. Once I got it, I wanted to take it all the w... ERIC WALKER Well, I certainly wouldn't give [advice] to the girl that has tried to get me tossed out of this pla... RACHEL E. CARTER My wife changes the way that I dress. She makes me dress nicer than I want to dress. I feel like I p... ADAM DRIVER Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get ... JACK HERER Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ... C.S. 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JULIE KLAUSNER Well, she hit it so high that I didn't know if it was going to go over the fence. Then, when it fina... BILL FETTERS Four months later, I was in a pool and I had no idea what I was doing. I had an idea, a dress, and a... LAURIE MCLEOD And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how ha... JOJO MOYES I remember thinking, 'I have no idea what's going on,' and I was wondering when it was going to be o... BRIAN SCHOEN I once dated a girl on the track team. It didn't work out. She kept giving me the runaround. SCOTT ROEBEN I knew I was going to have a great night because I was well-prepared, well-focused. You know when yo... ROBBIE EARL I heard her holler and that's when I knew something had transpired. She might have tried to fight hi... BILL PRICE You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS I knew it was going to go far when I hit it, but I didn't know how far. Once I got around second and... LAUREN GIBSON I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I... J.D. SALINGER I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was goin... ZACH BRAFF Pump gas and hydraulic cams are for minivans......... WAYNE SMOTHERS If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER I was so over crying. KIERA CASS The new girl looked up and caught me looking at her.I looked away, but it wasbto late. I tried not t... KAMI GARCIA Being a club pro and all, a guy trying to keep up with golf's modern technology, I hadn't fo... DAN JENKINS When we did our first international shipment, we had no idea what we were doing. I don't have a back... MARK PASDON I had no idea I could make it this far. And the fact that they told me I made it this far and that A... CASEY ABRAMS VIEW FROM A HILL I am not yet quite over it. I am lying down on top of it. Surv... JOHN TOTTENHAM ... if you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill ... JOJO MOYES I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no ... DAVID OGILVY I knew once it left my hands it was going in. I'm just glad my teammates had the confidence in me to... BRANDON BROWN I knew that as soon as I touched it, I was going to shoot it. Once I released it, I knew it was good... ARCHIE MIAWAY Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. EDMUND BURKE Once he threw it, I already knew I was going to get it. I was so glad he threw it to me. ANTONIO SMITH For me, it is ok that everyone talks about Rossi. It means I can just calmly focus on what I have to... FELIPE MASSA I have no recollection of the mirror thing. The thing I remember most was her sticking her head out ... SHAWN VARNEY My mother, Robin Bell, is the master of balancing the finite line between classic and creative when ... LAKE BELL I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, ... NAOMI CAMPBELL The first day when I saw the scores I knew I could have the win because only three people shot in th... ALAN LEE Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I appreciate the fact that you have one redeeming quality, Jack, but that is all it is. Just a hint ... K.A. LINDE You knew, from the first day in Miss Garber’s class that I was going to do the play, didn’t you.... NICHOLAS SPARKS Kimaria smirked and placed her hands behind her back. “Come now. It doesn’t have to come to that... ASH GRAY When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you. CRAIG GROESCHEL The next thing I know, it picked me up, my chair, with me on it, and threw me to the floor. I had a ... EDNA BEECHRAFT I have tried to get help for so long and no one will believe me. I have killed for the past ten year... HENRY LEE LUCAS And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she w... SARAH DESSEN A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe... DOROTHY L. SAYERS I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated... ANGIE MARTINEZ If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it SOTONYE ANGA I had no idea how much time was on the clock when I took that shot. It did feel good to make the sho... KRISTEN DALTON But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cos... WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Someone asked me the other day if I was going to wear a yellow dress. SHERYL CROW I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI I have no idea. I have not had one single senator on the committee tell me how they are going to vot... JOSEPH BIDEN Never has it been inappropriate for a girl to wear a red dress. CAROLINE GEORGE You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it. JEFFREY FRY From the moment I had Rachael on my show earlier this year, I knew she had it. She has that connecti... OPRAH WINFREY One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was s... BRYAN WHITE I once knew a girl that meant the world to me, she was just amazing. She's that one girl in my life ... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB So I narrowed my world, cutting put everyone who'd known me or tried to befriend me. It was the only... SARAH DESSEN I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it... ROMAN PAYNE The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and tryin... FLORENCE WELCH I just knew that if the ball got to me, I was going to knock it down and we wasn't going to lose thi... RASHAD ANDERSON My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried t... DEBI MAZAR I just heaved it. I had no idea where it was going. BILLY MILNE I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for... GARY NUMAN The knee had been bothering me for a while. I tried to play on it (in the playoffs), but it started ... FAT LEVER Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. STEPHEN KING He was in agony the whole time. I wasn't even aware of it, he just told me. I knew he had back probl... ED MCCOMISKEY Emily had an awesome game. She knew that this was going to be her biggest challenge of the season so... KIM ALLEN Do not let the tears fool you. She lied and cheated once, she will again. Your call to continue with... TREVON CLARK I don't think man and woman should be compared, You don't compare things that complete one another. FAITH N. Those who want to hear from you will let you hear from them. TREVON CLARK
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What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find m... ISABEL WOLFF This is not a quote but it is the only way I found to contact you. Please note the following:
You ar... ISABEL "If cats could talk, they'd sing as Frank Sinatra. If dogs could talk, they'd act as Chris Farley". ISABEL Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That ... NAT WOLFF Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a... NAT WOLFF I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently. NAT WOLFF I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started bangi... NAT WOLFF I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern. NAT WOLFF Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, t... NAT WOLFF When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome. NAT WOLFF I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that... NAT WOLFF I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skippe... NAT WOLFF Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's ... NAT WOLFF It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their pa... NAT WOLFF I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that i... NAT WOLFF Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been ... NAT WOLFF I'm a huge Nirvana fan. NAT WOLFF I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not. NAT WOLFF 'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's be... NAT WOLFF I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails. NAT WOLFF I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jea... NAT WOLFF I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare ... NAT WOLFF There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked... NAT WOLFF I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy. NAT WOLFF I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscio... TOBIAS WOLFF There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a ... TOBIAS WOLFF Yeah, it would hurt us, but I think there's a lot of cities it would hurt a lot worse, ALAN WOLFF It is far less in several respects than what we were seeking, but it is something we've accepted. Th... ALAN WOLFF There will be strong rights...to go after counterfeiting of goods. Implementation is going to be a r... ALAN WOLFF What one would want to see is a rising standard of living in China, ... so their people could afford... ALAN WOLFF It's not a pocketbook issue for the American consumer. We're already applying pretty low tariffs to ... ALAN WOLFF The White House knows the U.S. industry still confronts serious issues including massive global over... ALAN WOLFF Without pressure from us, the expansion of the service area and services offered wouldn't have happe... ALAN WOLFF I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings ... TOBIAS WOLFF Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it. TOBIAS WOLFF Writing has nothing to do with pretty manners, and less to do with sportsmanship or restraint [...]<... GEOFFREY WOLFF Hate is not a good counselor. VICTORIA WOLFF We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. TOBIAS WOLFF It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite... NAT WOLFF I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I sti... NAT WOLFF Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz... NAT WOLFF I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a ... TOBIAS WOLFF If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored. NAT WOLFF Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sou... CHRISTOPH WOLFF But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little... TOBIAS WOLFF I think everybody's intensity level just picked up. We started to rebound a little bit better. We ra... NICOLE WOLFF They were a really tough team and went after the ball hard, but we could have boxed them out better.... NICOLE WOLFF [But some of the Wizards players were very well aware of what was going on elsewhere in the conferen... JOSH WOLFF I definitely think we're a better team than last year. I don't think we're a playoff team yet, but w... ALLYSON WOLFF She's the leader out there. She's got a great arm, knows how to take control out there and has aweso... ALLYSON WOLFF She's got a good fastball and she's working on her change up. ALLYSON WOLFF I mean no disrespect, but ... MICHAEL WOLFF Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I hav... TOBIAS WOLFF It is no major composition but an occasional work in the form of an exquisite and highly refined str... CHRISTOPH WOLFF Women have always been the guardians of wisdom and humanity which makes them natural, but usually se... CHARLOTTE WOLFF When the Saints fell behind 7-0 in the first quarter, someone from Louisiana told me they would have... NELSON WOLFF We came out here to get peaches every year. JUANITA WOLFF It was a tough make, but it was clearly after the horn went off. We did get it up there pretty quick... DENNIS WOLFF I think you can overanalyze these things to where you're going to drive yourself nuts. The last two ... DENNIS WOLFF That was one of the softest performances by a BU team in six years - in every way. DENNIS WOLFF Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable. CHRISTIAN WOLFF My call for no severance is not vindictive, but necessary to show how serious we take his misdeeds, ... PAUL WOLFF I think Mel and I did a good job not allowing her to catch the ball, and when she did catch it not a... NICOLE WOLFF Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that a... TOBIAS WOLFF When the source is a story. That's a softball question. MICHAEL WOLFF We built the arena for the Spurs (the SBC Center in 2002). We have a capacity in our bonds maybe to ... NELSON WOLFF In summary, as neighboring property owners we object to the development of the park into such a high... VIKKI WOLFF I feel really good about this. It gives me a comforting feeling knowing he wants me in the game. I'v... NICOLE WOLFF Maybe we'll have vampire prom." He shot me an appalled look. "What is this, Twilight? VERONICA WOLFF big, old rambling house in Corrales. JUANITA WOLFF There is no question that some of the material in the cache is authentic, It seems that the cache is... CHRISTOPH WOLFF I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary. TOBIAS WOLFF You may just want wait and see if there's any more (beyond Bailey's incarceration) that we don't kno... NELSON WOLFF Transparency and compliance with the law are factors of further development, CHRISTIAN WOLFF Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that... TOBIAS WOLFF Authors are some of the best actors in the world - with multiple personality disorder. RIP WOLFF Who you choose to surround yourself with will determine if you fail, or if you will succeed. Assets ... STEVEN WOLFF Getting from La Jolla to Alta Vista State Hospital isn't easy, unless you have a car or a breakdown.... TOBIAS WOLFF And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you ca... TOBIAS WOLFF The destination is fulfilling when the path is authentically your own; find the courage and forge yo... JESSLYN WOLFF There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things... TOBIAS WOLFF I think the defense is playing hard. But still, our margin for error is not that great. There are st... DENNIS WOLFF The kid is a very good shooter, as good as I've recruited since I've been a coach here. He's gonna m... DENNIS WOLFF It's a play that's designed to get him a shot, but I can't take too much credit. I designed plays fo... DENNIS WOLFF I thought our kids gave a real gusty effort. They didn't appear to be intimidated by the circumstanc... DENNIS WOLFF I think Hassan, Geffen [and] Macon all played very well. Considering that Gardner didn't play, this ... DENNIS WOLFF I started him in the second half, that's how it works. If you produce, you play. DENNIS WOLFF This is the best game he's played in college. He was very efficient, very active on both ends of cou... DENNIS WOLFF I think it feels very good to get the win. We've played very hard lately but we haven't been able to... DENNIS WOLFF We started three guys who haven't played a minute of Division I basketball in this type of environme... DENNIS WOLFF It's a sweet deal for the firm. Most workers will wind up worse off as a result of the defined contr... EDWARD WOLFF It would be very unusual for workers to make up for the shortfall and it might certainly be a good w... EDWARD WOLFF With IBM gone, it won't be long before a lot of other companies follow suit. EDWARD WOLFF Things are not looking good for retirees with the collapse of the defined benefit plans. In 20 years... EDWARD WOLFF Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. TOBIAS WOLFF We don't usually do that before games. It was different, but I think it motivated everybody because ... NICOLE WOLFF Want! You must want something. What do you want? TOBIAS WOLFF I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that d... TOBIAS WOLFF I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own... TOBIAS WOLFF It was like fishing a swamp, where you feel the tug of something that at first seems promising and t... TOBIAS WOLFF Happiness is endless hapiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain. TOBIAS WOLFF And in my heart I despised the life I led in Seattle. I was sick of it and had no idea how to change... TOBIAS WOLFF I was giving up--being realistic , as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being reali... TOBIAS WOLFF When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disp... TOBIAS WOLFF We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That i... TOBIAS WOLFF Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d ... TOBIAS WOLFF Why were we so full of hope in those days? Looking back, I see so clearly that violence was worsenin... KAIMANA WOLFF It's more of an attitude of constant vigilance, and making sure that they don't fall through the cra... LOWELL WOLFF Meeting your adoptive baby is like being set up on a blind date with someone you will have to spend ... JANA WOLFF I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friends... JANA WOLFF What a surprise. I'm very pleased. I think it worked out well for Billy and for Ken and for the play... LEWIS WOLFF What a surprise, ... I'm very pleased. I think it worked out well for Billy and for Ken and for the ... LEWIS WOLFF I like the A's best, but I like the White Sox and Angels, LEWIS WOLFF It's the single-most creative thing I've seen done (in San Jose) in a long time. LEWIS WOLFF I think it would be premature and self-serving. LEWIS WOLFF I had been living more in cities, and I wanted to live in a more country atmosphere, JUANITA WOLFF I'm not going to look at this as being the most critical game of my life, but it's important like th... JOSH WOLFF I'm not going to say it's a a do or die, but it's important. You're a forward. That's what you get p... JOSH WOLFF I think getting an early goal helps any forward. He has that killer instinct. Once he gets one, he w... JOSH WOLFF When he does things well, it's pretty special. But there's a flip side, things he needs to be groome... JOSH WOLFF We talk about scoring goals; we talk about winning at home, being ahead. None of that means anything... JOSH WOLFF We don't give up many opportunities [at home], but for whatever reason they were able to find the ba... JOSH WOLFF That was the first time we got a game with Mexico in a pro-American environment, ... Everyone was ex... JOSH WOLFF You come out of the All-Star break with a pretty good mentality that the last third of the season is... JOSH WOLFF Four goals is a good night for us, but we should have had more. We let them back in the game, but we... JOSH WOLFF This is just a totally spectacular image, ... I can't get enough of these. MICHAEL WOLFF All Roads Lead to Rove. MICHAEL WOLFF I enjoy her in a different way than I did my own kids.
Since I'm retired, I have more time to be ... PAUL WOLFF It was a whole team effort. We knew we wanted to chase her around the screens, and our post players ... NICOLE WOLFF It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there ... ISABEL WILKERSON I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons.... ISABEL ALLENDE I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to ... ISABEL ALLENDE Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political backg... ISABEL ALLENDE I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences. ISABEL ALLENDE I can't control life for my grandchildren, so how could I control a story? Sometimes I try to fo... ISABEL ALLENDE My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. ISABEL ALLENDE I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umb... ISABEL ALLENDE Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. ISABEL ALLENDE Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give i... ISABEL ALLENDE I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and ... ISABEL ALLENDE If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in techni... ISABEL ALLENDE What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. ISABEL ALLENDE Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you. ISABEL ALLENDE For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number o... ISABEL ALLENDE From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and... ISABEL ALLENDE You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all t... ISABEL GILLIES Those we hold most dear never truly leave us ... they live on in the kindnesses they showed, the com... ISABEL NORTON I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States co... ISABEL ALLENDE In my friend, I find a second self. ISABEL NORTON We only have what we give. ISABEL ALLENDE As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, som... ISABEL ALLENDE This is just like the story of Al Capone. In the end he will be caught on tax evasion, and not becau... ISABEL ALLENDE Kingdom of the Golden Dragon ISABEL ALLENDE For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below ther... ISABEL ALLENDE Write what should not be forgotten ISABEL ALLENDE Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. ISABEL ALLENDE one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years. ISABEL ALLENDE I'm going to send you by fax a list of ingredients. And I want you to come up with recipes for lover... ISABEL ALLENDE This book gave me back the passionate optimism of my youth. This young generation of women will have... ISABEL ALLENDE It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to both... ISABEL COLEGATE A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot. ISABEL ALLENDE The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ISABEL ALLENDE Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The f... ISABEL ALLENDE We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. ... ISABEL ALLENDE I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible... ISABEL ALLENDE A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose t... ISABEL ALLENDE I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the gr... ISABEL ALLENDE I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in t... ISABEL ALLENDE My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. ISABEL ALLENDE I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one. ISABEL ALLENDE Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: ... ISABEL ALLENDE I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I hav... ISABEL ALLENDE I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zon... ISABEL LUCAS I can't pick a favorite animal; I love so many! But I guess if I have to choose, I pick bees! Th... ISABEL LUCAS If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will b... ISABEL ALLENDE We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only... ISABEL ALLENDE America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the B... ISABEL WILKERSON I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no lo... ISABEL ALLENDE I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in... ISABEL ALLENDE Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, s... ISABEL ALLENDE On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my cou... ISABEL ALLENDE The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological ord... ISABEL ALLENDE The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch ... ISABEL YOSITO In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jaco... ISABEL GILLIES Write what should not be forgotten. ISABEL ALLENDE I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, b... ISABEL ALLENDE Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do n... ISABEL ALLENDE I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager. ISABEL GILLIES We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks... ISABEL YOSITO Mom worked with autistic children. ISABEL LUCAS Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want... ISABEL ALLENDE I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There&... ISABEL LUCAS I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the ... ISABEL YOSITO Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world... ISABEL ALLENDE I love Athena. I love all the goddesses and the archetypes and what they represent because I think t... ISABEL LUCAS There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the gre... ISABEL WILKERSON Skeptical of strangers, lobstermen are keepers of secrets, working in the howling wind and hot sun, ... ISABEL GILLIES As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid. ISABEL PATERSON I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I love... ISABEL GILLIES It was a long time ago: 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was... ISABEL GILLIES