Larson Quotes

We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time. ~ Taraka Larson

At the Quebec prison, he had read Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, then had autographed the book and given it to a guard for a souvenir. ~ Erik Larson

This prolonging of a man's life doesn't interest me when he's done his work and has done it pretty well. ~ Erik Larson

Bravely ventured is half won. ~ M.A. Larson

Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me. ~ Brie Larson

I think the interesting aspect of life is that you're always sort of in the middle. You're never the youngest and you're never the oldest. ~ Brie Larson

Her blind endorsement of Hitler's regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached, ~ Erik Larson

The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last. ~ Jonathan Larson

I have always wondered what it would have been like for an outsider to have witnessed firsthand the gathering dark of Hitler's rule. How did the city look, what did one hear, see, and smell, and how did diplomats and other visitors interpret the events occurring around them? Hindsight tells us that during that fragile time the course of history could so easily have been changed. Why, then, did no one change it? Why did it take so long to recognize the real danger posed by Hitler and his regime? ~ Erik Larson

Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades alienists and their successors would find themselves hard-pressed to describe with any precision what it was about men like Holmes that could cause them to seem warm and ingratiating but also telegraph the vague sense that some important element of humanness was missing. ~ Erik Larson

Achieving it is not only the chief means of adding to your regular duties. ~ Doug Larson

Postscript: H - Bring warm clothes and a cat ~ Kirby Larson

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. ~ Doug Larson

If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems. ~ Kirby Larson

There's nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in humanity. ~ Doug Larson

Look out, everyone! ... We're being attacked by a giant sq ... well, no ... I'd say medium squid! ~ Gary Larson

Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you. ~ Brie Larson

Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression. ~ Kirby Larson

Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime! ~ Erik Larson

Berliners came to practice what became known as "the German glance" - der deutsche Blick - a quick look in all directions when encountering a friend or acquaintance on the street. ~ Erik Larson

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can. ~ John B. Larson

Girls in this industry sabotage one another. ~ Brie Larson

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm. ~ Gary Larson

To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard. ~ Brie Larson

To live always in the Secret Places of the Most High, To think only those thoughts that are inspired from above, To do all things in the conviction that God is with us, To give the best to all the world with no thought of reward, To leave all recompense to Him who doeth all things well, To love everybody as God loves us, and be Kind as He is Kind, To ask God for everything and in faith expect everything, To live in perpetual gratitude to Him who gives everything, To love God so much that we can inwardly feel that My Father and I are one, This is the prayer without ceasing, the true worship of the soul. ~ Christian D. Larson

Tom Moysten!" Mr. Larson yelled. "You're not paying attention!"
I whipped around in my chair and closed my sketchbook.
"Yes, I am," I said.
(Laughter.)
"Then tell me what I just said."
You know how sometimes you can repeat what someone just said even if you didn't really hear it at the time? Well, I couldn't. Not this time, anyway.
"You said I wasn't paying attention," I said.
(More laughter.)
Mr. Larson wasn't amused.
"Oh, a comedian," he said. "Perhaps you'd like to stand up here and tell a few jokes."
"No, thanks."
"Afraid to make a fool of yourself?" he asked.
"No, that's your job," I said.
(Long, loud laughter.) ~ Emily Rodda

Thunderstick? ... You actually said, 'Thunderstick?' ... That, my friend is a Winchester 30.06. ~ Gary Larson

Lord, I trusted You and found You trustworthy. I now know that when You ask me to wait it's because You're making me ready. You had to remove from me the very things the enemy would have used against me. Your ways are always motivated by love. I embrace contentment because You are always my safest place. My refuge. ~ Susie Larson

They looked more like day laborers than seamen. ~ Erik Larson

Life is growth and the object of right thinking is to promote that growth. ~ Christian D. Larson

General Electric rather miraculously came back with a bid of $554,000. But Westinghouse, whose AC system was inherently cheaper and more efficient, bid $399,000. The exposition went with Westinghouse, and helped change the history of electricity. ~ Erik Larson

You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'. ~ Gary Larson

I wondered whose job it was to blow sunshine into my ears. ~ B.V. Larson

As a reminder to himself and anyone who visited his office in the shanty, Burnham posted a sign over his desk bearing a single word: RUSH. ~ Erik Larson

At present," he said, "I am responsible for conveying my associates to a place called Chicago. I understand it is somewhere in the hinterland. ~ Erik Larson

Larson had been putting up a front like he wasn't listening, but hearing that last statement from Owen made him speak up. "It's not about that," he asserted.
"It has to be," Owen disagreed. "How else am I supposed to define myself?"
"Why do you have to have a definition? A label isn't gonna make you feel any better about yourself or this situation. Stop trying to put yourself in one group or the other. It doesn't matter."
"It matters to me!" Owen challenged. "My whole world has been flipped upside down thanks to you! Am I just supposed to sit back and accept that?"
Larson was beginning to boil over with repugnance. "Yes! Because that's what happens!" He was trying as hard a he could not to scream. "Things change and sometimes there's nothing we can do about it. Life sucks. Deal with it! That's what I'm doing. I'm not doing it in the best way, but I'm doing it. I'm dealing with that fact that you left me. ~ Megan Duke

Turner, that day, was master of one of the great greyhounds of the North Atlantic - and looked the part. ~ Erik Larson

She had a brief affair with a novelist, W. L. River, whose Death of a Young Man had been published several years earlier. He called her Motsie and pledged himself to her in letters composed of stupendously long run-on sentences, in one case seventy-four lines of single-spaced typewriting. At the time this passed for experimental prose.
"I want nothing from life except you," he wrote. "I want to be with you forever, to work and write for you, to live wherever you want to live, to love nothing, nobody but you, to love you with the passion of earth but also with the above earthly elements of more eternal, spiritual love. ... "
He did not, however, get his wish. ~ Erik Larson

THE ADMIRALTY'S focus was elsewhere, on a different ship that it deemed far more valuable. ~ Erik Larson

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. ~ Doug Larson

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur ~ Doug Larson

Murder was a fascination as always. ~ Erik Larson

Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life's secrets. It's the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. 'We are too ego-centered,' Suzuki tells Cage.' The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away. ~ Kay Larson

I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them. ~ Kirby Larson

Messersmith wrote. "We must keep in mind, I believe, that when Hitler says anything he for the moment convinces himself that it is true. He is basically sincere; but he is at the same time a fanatic." Messersmith urged skepticism regarding Hitler's protestations. "I think for the moment he genuinely desires peace but it is a peace of his own kind and with an armed force constantly becoming more effective in reserve, in order to impose their will when it may become essential. ~ Erik Larson

The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation. ~ Jonathan Larson

I'm not even sure I'm going to see that Colin Farrell wanna-be again."

"What happened?"

"Walked in on him and the bartender in the bathroom last night at Lotus. Usually, that wouldn't bother me, but the bartender had a mullet. Can you imagine, a mullet in 2012? So sad, Travis obviously has tragically bad taste. ~ Tamara Larson

The ranks included a carpenter and furniture-maker named Elias Disney, who in coming years would tell many stories about the construction of this magical realm beside the lake. His son Walt would take note. ~ Erik Larson

Dodd acknowledged Congress's reluctance to become entangled abroad but added, "I do, however, think facts count; even if we hate them. ~ Erik Larson

On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy. ~ Gary Larson

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation. ~ Jonathan Larson

As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library's gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats. ~ Erik Larson

Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane. ~ Doug Larson

New York's perennial attraction was shopping. ~ Erik Larson

My mama always said piecing quilts is like making friends.' She kept her eyes on the scissors as she cut up a piece of blue ticking. 'Sometimes the more different fabrics - and people - are,' she said, 'the stronger the pattern.'
I looked up at her. She smiled a sad, sweet smile at me. I felt as if she'd looked right into my heart and seen all my warts and flaws, and held her own heart out to me anyway. ~ Kirby Larson

So every night," he said, "I slept with a torpedo and a puppy. ~ Erik Larson

Boswell and Thompson write, Every night the rooms on the two upper floors of the Castle were filled to overflowing. Holmes reluctantly accommodated a few men as paying guests, but catered primarily to women - preferably young and pretty ones of apparent means, whose homes were distant from Chicago and who had no one close to them who might make inquiry if they did not soon return. Many never went home. Many, indeed, never emerged from the castle, having once entered it ~ Erik Larson

You believe you have failed. But you - created from dust - cannot see as I see. ~ R.J. Larson

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so. ~ Erik Larson

Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do. ~ Kirby Larson

That's one trouble about the raids. . . People do nothing but make tea and expect you to drink it. ~ Erik Larson

Your brain is so lovely and so willing to please. It wants to help so much. ~ Brie Larson

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. ~ Erik Larson

My travels took me as far north as Thorsminde, Denmark (in February no less); as far south as Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia; as far west as the Hoover Library at Stanford University; and to various points east, including the always amazing Library of Congress and the U.S. National Archives, and equally enticing archives in London, Liverpool, and Cambridge. ~ Erik Larson

Following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What ~ Erik Larson

I was the one who was supposed to protect him, but I'd never felt as protected as I did in that moment, encircled by his strong arms ~ Sara B. Larson

Sometimes you never fully understand why you are attracted to a project until you get deeper into it. ~ Brie Larson

I had this crazy, a bit of a near-death experience in Estonia. I had these visions of the future but I was in this state where I felt the past, the present, and the future were all happening at the same time. ~ Taraka Larson

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure. ~ Christian D. Larson

I had collages in my bedroom when I was a teenager. ~ Brie Larson

No realm was too petty: The Ministry of Posts ruled that henceforth when trying to spell a word over the telephone a caller could no longer say "D as in David," because "David" was a Jewish name. The caller had to use "Dora." "Samuel" became "Siegfried." And so forth. "There has been nothing in social history more implacable, more heartless and more devastating than the present policy in Germany against the Jews," Consul General Messersmith told Undersecretary Phillips in a long letter dated September 29, 1933. He wrote, "It is definitely the aim of the Government, no matter what it may say to the outside or in Germany, to eliminate the Jews from German life. ~ Erik Larson

I only write about stuff I know. I don't have a lot of experience with boys and stuff so I write a lot of songs about interesting and strange subjects that people wouldn't write songs about. ~ Brie Larson

Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it. ~ Brie Larson

I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.' ~ Brie Larson

We lived in just a studio apartment with just a room and a bed that came out of the wall, and my mom couldn't afford even a Happy Meal. We ate Top Ramen. I had no toys, and I had, like, two shirts, a pair of jeans, and that was it. But I had my mom to myself, and I remember it being the coolest period of time. I loved it. I really loved it. ~ Brie Larson

She had suffered; she had endured loss; she wore sadness like a second skin. ~ Sara B. Larson

When you eliminate all stimuli, your brain is like, 'Finally, we've got some space! I want to talk with you about something!' ~ Brie Larson

The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen ... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut. ~ Gary Larson

What we wish for, dream and imagine is the very framework and foundation of everything we create ~ Cynthia Sue Larson

There's nothing I'd say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that - when you're working with a group of people that are so beyond talented - that, every day, you wake up going, 'All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people.' That's what makes it fun. ~ Brie Larson

We're principled in the direction we're heading, but we're not going to be stubborn, ~ Julie Larson-Green

Every mental process, or every mental action, that takes place in our wide-awake consciousness will, if it has depth of feeling or intensity, enter the unconscious field, and after it has developed itself according to the line of its original nature, will return to the conscious side of the mind. ~ Christian D. Larson

THE SUBMARINE as a weapon had come a long way by this time, certainly to the point where it killed its own crews only rarely. ~ Erik Larson

The tick-tick-booms are softer now. I can barely hear them, and I think if I play loud enough, I can drown them out completely. ~ Jonathan Larson

All she wanted was for him to leave, yet all she wanted was for him to stay. ~ M.A. Larson

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany? ~ Erik Larson

From a legal perspective, illegal communication
behavior also is unethical, but that which is not specifically illegal is ethical. In ~ Charles U. Larson

When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else. ~ Christian D. Larson

Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne, ~ Erik Larson

Riders on the Ferris Wheel got the clearest, most horrific view of what happened next. ~ Erik Larson

Be proud of what you do. But do something worth being proud of. ~ Steve Larson

There are a lot of unspoken things with me and Nimai [Larson]. We're very yin and yang, neither one of us really treads on each other's toes. She's this wizard of the rhythm world, and I know nothing about that, but I can dabble with melody and lyrics and that's something she doesn't really have any interest in. We complement each other in that way. ~ Taraka Larson

User interface is customer service for the computer. ~ Julie Larson-Green

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike. ~ Gary Larson

Back in America, true to her nature if not to Boris, Martha met and promptly fell in love with a new man, ~ Erik Larson

A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about. ~ Doug Larson

Biting his lip, blinking against fresh tears, Kien smoothed Ela's dark tangled hair, then dared another look at her face. So serene. Beautiful beneath the dried trails of blood. What had she suffered? Brave little prophet.
He whispered, "I love you!" Always. ~ R.J. Larson

MARTHA'S CHEERY VIEW of things was widely shared by outsiders visiting Germany and especially Berlin. The fact was that on most days in most neighborhoods the city looked and functioned as it always had. ~ Erik Larson

Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it in riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots? ~ Erik Larson

I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment." I was 18. I was like, "This is it." I didn't get it. And I was devastated. ~ Brie Larson