A Ruler For Windows Quotes & Sayings

I've always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We're all made of the same thing - the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars. — Blake Crouch

I'm ready for anything. That's probably why it never happens. — Kinky Friedman

One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop." — Albert Azaryan

I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide. — Margaret Cho

I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field. — Lee Gutkind

The filter's the best part. That's where they put the heroin. — Denis Leary

Sorrow opens the gate to the Grace of God — Tim Willocks

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life. — Marianne Williamson

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound. — Paul Auster

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents. — Philippe Petit

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant. — Richard Brautigan

Dreams are rudiments
Of the great state to come. We dream what is
About to happen. — Philip James Bailey

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor. — Sylvester Stallone

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we ordinarily speak of as materialism is a result, not a cause. The root of materialism is a poverty of ideas about the inner and the outer world. Less and less does our contemporary culture have, or even seek, commerce with great ideas, and it is that lack that is weakening the human spirit. This is the essence of materialism. Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas. — Jacob Needleman

Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky - under each bulb - down to there, see that spark over the river which is not a star? - there are people whom you will never see and who are your masters. At the supper tables, in the drawing rooms, in their beds and in their cellars, in their studies and in their bathrooms. Speeding in the subways under your feet. Crawling up in elevators through vertical cracks around you. Jolting past you in every bus. Your masters, Gail Wynand. There is a net - longer than the cables that coil through the walls of this city, larger than the mesh of pipes that carry water, gas and refuse - there is another hidden net around you; it is strapped to you, and the wires lead to every hand in the city. They jerked the wires and you moved. You were a ruler of men. You held a leash. A leash is only a rope with a noose at both ends. — Ayn Rand