Atacity Quotes & Sayings

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs - To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind. — John Updike

But something about the static truth of numbers hurt my brain. Numbers felt sharp. Words felt elastic and springy. Language had an unpredictable, quicksilver quality, saying one thing but meaning something else, varying from place to place but maintaining (against all evidence) that it was the same language. Thinking about words was ticklish and amusing. It was also easy, as if they fit into slots and patterns prepared for them in my mind. Numbers on the other hand, bounced right out of my mind. — Susanna Kaysen

I would rather get a PhD than stand to reach for toilet paper. Though some readers might emphasize the similarities between the two activities. — Rhoda Janzen

To me, it's encounters that matter, pictures are much less important. — Anders Petersen

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals. — Nick Clooney

Like some people in life, a lot of my characters have no future. — Jack Tate

Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it. — Bear Bryant

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States. — Joe Biden

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually. — Stephenie Meyer

Because being a smart-ass is always preferable to being a dumb-ass. — Arlaina Tibensky

I'm at the point, frankly, where I'd rather deal with a misogynist with a copy of Tucker Max's book in his backpack over someone in sensitive emo-boy clothing, because both are misogynists, only the one with the backpack is more honest about just how scared of women he is. — Julie Klausner

It seems to me like all these people claim to be the victim,
Acting like the whole entire world is out to get them.
Stand up on your own,
And prove that you are grown,
Because the life that you save may be your own. — Lee Majors

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race. — Mike Rounds

Women say they want a man who knows what a woman's worth. That's a pimp. — Rich Hall

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge. — Karel Capek