A Perfect Man 2013 Quotes & Sayings

It was as if the light had coaxed a flowering from the frost, which before seemed barren and parched as salt. The grass shone with petal colors, and water drops spilled from all the trees as innumerably as petals. — Marilynne Robinson

Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that's what humans like, and we assume our pets like what we like. We're wrong. — Mary Roach

The decision to move to the second post-college city (or suburb, or town), however, is usually made independent of friends. No matter if you do it for love, career, family, or school, the second move is on your own terms. — Rachel Bertsche

What I'm really interested in, as a reader and as a writer, is the idea of the nonfiction book that is not defined by its content, by its "about"-ness. Where you read it irrespective of whether you're interested in the subject. — Geoff Dyer

Laplace's Demon, the hypothetical imp that knows the instantaneous positions and velocities of every particle in the universe, was said to be able to calculate the entire future or past by plugging these values into the equations that express the laws of mechanics and electromagnetism. — Steven Pinker

I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer. — Cornelia Funke

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave. — Cormac McCarthy

A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation. — Ingibjorg N. Frid

She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself. — F Scott Fitzgerald

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board. — Charles Tupper