4091 Pet Quotes & Sayings

Plato laments the decline of the oral tradition and the atrophy of memory which writing induces, I at the other end of the Age of the Written Word am impressed by the sturdiness and reliability of words on paper ... The will to record indelibly, to set down stories in permanent words, seems to me akin to the conviction that we are larger than our biologies. — Jonathan Franzen

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. — John Lydon

To remain static is to lose ground. — David Packard

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. — Rumi

My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another. — Ben Lerner

Stallions obey mares. — Katherine Arden

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come. — Neil Young

I have had a lot of really close friends and family who have been touched by suicide, and I would never want to make light of it. — Lauren Iungerich

The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics ... Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words. — Will Rogers

They [INTJs] are likely, however, to organize themselves out of a job. They cannot continually reorganize the same thing, and a finished product has no more interest. Thus, they need successive new assignments, with bigger and better problems, to stretch their powers. — Isabel Briggs Myers

To die in a battle is often referred to as a heroic act, but I will never understand that. What glory is there in bleeding to death in agony on the battlefield? I have no intention of dying at the hands of my enemy. — Peter Koevari