Americanist Heresy Quotes & Sayings

...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy. — Alexei Sayle

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. — Eugene Paul Wigner

A careful and honest writer does not need to worry about style. As you become proficient in the use of language, your style will emerge, because you yourself will emerge, and when this happens you will find it increasingly easy to breakthrough the barriers that separate you from other minds, other hearts - which is, of course, the purpose of writing, as well as its principal reward. — Strunk Jr., William

I felt a pang
a strange and inexplicable pang that I had never felt before.
It was homesickness.
Now, even more than I had earlier when I'd first glimpsed it, I longed to be transported into that quiet little landscape, to walk up the path, to take a key from my pocket and open the cottage door, to sit down by the fireplace, to wrap my arms around myself, and to stay there forever and ever. — Alan Bradley

My dad always said to go for my hobby and used to commend me for my excellent judgement so i try to do the similar for my children. — Heather McDonald

Civilizatons rise and fall. History has taught us that this is the way of things — Kirsten Beyer

Quentin was thin and tall, though he habitually hunched his shoulders in a vain attempt to brace himself against whatever blow was coming from the heavens, and which would logically hit the tall people first. — Lev Grossman

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught. — Elin Hilderbrand

It became the middle finger I couldn't raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war. — Robin Olds

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic. — Judith Butler