20814 Quotes & Sayings

Nothing will hold you back because you expect the unexpected. With a clear vision for your life, you are better prepared to combat any opposition. — Farshad Asl

During the investigation, he tried a brief defense of his medical practice on the grounds that he had once assisted a vivisectionist in Tampa, Florida; and when this failed, he settled down to sullen grumbling about the Jews, earthly vanity, and quoted bits from Ecclesiastes, Alfonso Liguori, and Pope Pius IX, in answer to any accusatory question. — William Gaddis

I try not to go crazy, but yes, I pay attention to what I eat. — Eva Mendes

People used to romanticize the natural world, before the Rising. These days, we mostly just run away from it. — Mira Grant

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose. — Tom Shadyac

There's no point vilifying wild animals for a random incident. — Maggie Stiefvater

I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel. — Jenny Offill

Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible;
Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee.
'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling. — William Shakespeare

Silence has always been my default mode - my best defense against the rest of the world. — Matthew Quick

I don't think we're at war with Islam. I don't think we're at war with all Muslims. I think we're at war with jihadists. — Hillary Clinton

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. — Michael Pollan

A book from a nearby shelf tumbled to the ground and the pages rustled a moment before settling. I bit my lip, debating. If this was a horror movie, I would be yelling at the stupid girl to run - but I ignored my own advice and walked towards the book. — Lani Woodland

It is extraordinary Monsieur Benoit, but everytime I think of your triple character as a landlord, a bootmaker, and a friend, I am tempted to believe in the Trinity. — Henri Murger