84526978 Quotes & Sayings

For the book unwritten is the book burned. — Stan Rice

It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I feel as if I can think only when I see the words flowing from the nib of my quill, that my thoughts make sense only when they are black ink on cream paper. I love the sensation of a thought in my head and the vision of the word on the page. — Philippa Gregory

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so. — Alexis Korner

I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know anymore than I did. — Matthew Quick

Unless we realize that the present market society, structured around the brutally competitive imperative of "grow or die," is a thoroughly impersonal, self-operating mechanism, we will falsely tend to blame technology as such or population growth as such for environmental problems. We will ignore their root causes, such as trade for profit, industrial expansion, and the identification of "progress" with corporate self-interest. In short, we will tend to focus on the symptoms of a grim social pathology rather than on the pathology itself, and our efforts will be directed toward limited goals whose attainment is more cosmetic than curative. — Murray Bookchin

They downloaded another customer query, and Mae scrolled through the boilerplates, found the appropriate answer, personalized it, and sent it back. — Dave Eggers

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause. — Swami Vivekananda

There is a strong possibility I will release another volume of ARTPOP and I'm really hoping that it's soon. — Lady Gaga

In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, 'Don't be defensive,' meaning, 'You have no argument,' but I was born in the age of Rommel, when defense was considered an honorable thing. — Mark Helprin

A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!] — Mo Johnston

I held to my anger, drank from my well of poison. These things are not good things, but at least they're mine. — Mark Lawrence

My 3am wake up call sounds a lot different now. Sweeter ... — Savannah Guthrie