Bean In Chicago Quotes & Sayings

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane? — Brad Herzog

Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision. — Agnes Repplier

It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different. — David

My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? '
'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?'
- Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher — Jim Butcher

The Buhha was a monastic, but the practice of mindfulness in the context of any lifestyle is one of renunciation. Every moment of mindfulness renounces the reflexive, self-protecting response of the mind in favor of clear and balanced understanding. In the light of the wisdom that comes from balanced undertanding, attachment to having things be other than what they ar falls away. — Sylvia Boorstein

And opening her arms wide, took my curly head within them, and gave it a good squeeze. I know it was a good squeeze, because, being very plump, whenever she made any little exertion after she was dressed, some of the buttons on the back of her gown flew off. And I recollect two bursting to the opposite side of the parlour, while she was hugging me. — Charles Dickens

What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad? — Susanna Kaysen

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea. — Lara Flynn Boyle

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth. — Azar Nafisi

You know," he says, "for someone who doesn't like touching people, you keep finding ways to put your hands on me. — Victoria Schwab

I lived in Boston until last year," he said, in a falsely low-key way, because "Boston" was code for Harvard (otherwise he would say MIT or Tufts or anywhere else), just as another woman said, "I was in New Haven," in that coy manner that pretended not to be coy, which meant that she had been at Yale. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

He could feel his father's history like ruts worn deep in the road. — Ari Berk

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room. — Regina Spektor