Breslin Wallace Quotes & Sayings

Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature. It is because science gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importance than art. Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not the superior, of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has a practical importance to which art cannot aspire. — Bertrand Russell

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. — Ambrose Bierce

We are the Triumvirate. We do not take orders from Kerch street rats with dubious haircuts. — Leigh Bardugo

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me. — Stephen King

Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth. — Robert Orben

The body

whips the soul. In its great desire
it demands the elixir

In the roar of spring,
transmutations. — Charles Olson

The sun shines directly on this great country, and it can be harvested, it's not owned by anybody. It's something the Jews and the Palestinians share and could work together to make the whole world a better place, not just this Middle East stuff, but the whole world. — Sarah Silverman

I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me. — Martin Scorsese