Ann Quin Quotes & Sayings

By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies- all these are private and except through symbols and at second hand incommunicable. — Aldous Huxley

I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park. — Cecily McMillan

Don't ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I'm someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie. — Bob Norster

That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears. — Anthony Lane

I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence. — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

But it is really just a psychic overcompensation for our impotence as beings. — Thomas Ligotti

Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry. — Rachel Caine

I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner. — Kevin Garnett

Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the littlest. — Roger Mahony

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we
because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted. — Rose Wilder Lane

Whenever, in any era, culture, or society, you encounter the phenomenon of prejudice, injustice, persecution, and blind, unreasoning hatred directed at some minority group - look for the gang that has something to gain from that persecution, look for those who have a vested interest in the destruction of these particular sacrificial victims. Invariably, you will find that the persecuted minority serves as a scapegoat for some movement that does not want the nature of its own goals to be known. — Ayn Rand

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. — Thorstein Veblen

If the current is right, one can drift to success. — Mason Cooley

It's emotion. When you are watching a movie you see a woman sitting with her daughter and looking in her eyes and you see butterflies flying in the background and then you suddenly hear scary movie music and it changes the whole thing. But if something sounds different it changes the movie. Music is the back drop of what you talk about. — Yung Joc