Addys Menu Quotes & Sayings

Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts
some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole. — Theodosius Dobzhansky

Isolation, anchoring, distraction, and sublimation are among the wiles we use to keep ourselves from dispelling every illusion that keeps us up and running. Without this cognitive double-dealing, we would be exposed for what we are. It would be like looking into a mirror and for a moment seeing the skull inside our skin looking back at us with its sardonic smile. And beneath the skull - only blackness, nothing. Someone is there, so we feel, and yet no one is there - the uncanny paradox, all the horror in a glimpse. A little piece of our world has been peeled back, and underneath is creaking desolation - a carnival where all the rides are moving but no patrons occupy the seats. We are missing from the world we have made for ourselves. Maybe if we could resolutely gaze wide-eyed at our lives we would come to know what we really are. But that would stop the showy attraction we are inclined to think will run forever.8 — Thomas Ligotti

Silver lining; if we die, I won't have to take the SATs in January — Delia Winters

It is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking. — Andrzej Sapkowski

Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up. — Wes Fesler

It's how you live that really counts — Katharine Hepburn

I often say that we should only be judged on two things: if we're kind, and if we read books. — Paige Shelton

I may need your permission to keep you, girl. But I don't need anyone's permission to love you. I choose it of my own free will, and there's nothing you can do about it.-Finn. — Kersten Hamilton

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. — Mary Hunter Austin

We have to support each other's tired nerves, I know that sounds so Pollyanna, but really ... Mommy groups can be amazing, but haven't you ever gone to one and felt like you are back in high school, totally on the outside of the 'cool kids' club? I totally have! — Marissa Jaret Winokur

I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing. — Anna Kavan