“ God is the only one that won't disappoint you. Everyone else is percentages of your peace. Shannon L. Alder
“ Everybody make words,' he continued. 'Everybody write things down. Children in school do lessons in my books. Teachers put grades in my books. Love letters sent in envelopes I sell. Ledgers for accoun… Paul Auster
“ I try to sit still for about 15 minutes each morning without making lists or running in overdrive. Alex Guarnaschelli
“ Qualities of a Good Nurse: Go, I said.1. Doesn't pun on your disability, Isaac said.2. Gets blood on the first try, I said.Seriously, that is huge. I mean is this my freaking arm or a dartboard? 3. No… John Green
“ To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous. Rebecca Solnit
“ She reaches down into her bulging tote bag and pulls out a small plastic box with a hinged lid. It contains a round pill box with a threaded lid from which she tips out a vitamin pill, a fish-oil pill… Michael Chabon
“ In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books… Italo Calvino
“ If something was worth writing down, it was worth writing down in full. And she had a horror of lists--grocery lists, Christmas card lists, and most grisly of all, to-do lists. Lists, like appointment… Jincy Willett
“ In the spirit of Ethan's neurosis, we made a drywall list of keyboard buttons we would like to see: PLEASE, THANK YOU, FUCK OFF, DIE, OOPS...MY MISTAKE, DO SOMETHING COOL AND SURPRISE ME . Douglas Coupland
“ The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis. Umberto Eco
“ If I am not persistent with my desire to think about other things, and consciously initiate new circuits of thought, then those uninvited loops can generate new strength and begin monopolizing my mind… Jill Bolte Taylor
“ [D]espite her alternative leanings, it turned out Crystal was not particularly psyco-babbly or airy-fairy or tree-huggy, as one might have expected.In fact, the first thing she did was write a list. S… Sarah-Kate Lynch
“ People who use their religion as a framework to kill people, simply , are not nice people. Yes, that's quite a stand I'm making, but the idea that people are systematically executed because they don't… Greg Gutfeld
“ The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive, but a ritual, an essential ordering of the world into tall, thin jar… Catherynne M. Valente
“ Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing… Sarah Dessen
