1749 Massey Quotes & Sayings

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species. — James Madison

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. — Orison Swett Marden

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality. — Darnell Lamont Walker

When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted. — Gunter Grass

There's no reason why a society consisting of rational beings capable of empathizing with each other, complete and having no natural reason to compete, should have a government, laws, or leaders. — Valerie Solanas

My father was convinced the Taliban would hunt him down and kill him, but he again refused security from the police. 'If you go around with a lot of security the Taliban will use Kalashnikovs or suicide bombers and more people will be killed,' he said. 'At least I'll be killed alone.' — Malala Yousafzai

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way. — Fred D'Aguiar

Computers make people stupid. — David Gelernter

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things. — Henri Frederic Amiel

God seldom gives us all we need in order to understand, but He always gives us all we need to obey. — Wayne Stiles

Maybe anger only needs the right melody, the right rhythm to be beautiful. — Emma Trevayne

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. — Mehmet Oz

from What to Read by Mickey Pearlman - A book for book clubs
From chapter -- "How to Read":
Rule 1: BAN at the outset any discussion that focuses on "Did you like the book." This is not a popularity contest, any worthwhile piece of fiction or non-fiction, no matter how beloved or detested teaches the reader something. — Mickey Pearlman

nurse woke me at 4:30 a.m. on November 1, 1962, to announce the messiah had been wrapped in swaddling and was christened Anthony Kiedis. — Blackie Dammett