Californian Online Quotes & Sayings

It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political elites who combine their power to eliminate workers as an organized political force. The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence. — Naomi Klein

I can't fall asleep at night when reading a good book. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do feel free to call upon me. My discretion may be relied upon, I do assure you." He bowed quaintly from his saddle. "To the same extent as your loyalty to Colum MacKenzie?" I said, arching my brows. The small brown eyes met mine full on, and I saw both the cleverness and the humor that lurked in their faded depths. "Ah, weel," he said, without apology. "Worth a try. — Diana Gabaldon

Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me. — Alan Lightman

You couldn't ask a person to remain supportive through any crisis. If a man's wife were suddenly afflicted with a mental illness, it would be a sin for him to leave her, but a forgivable one. To stay would mean accepting a different kind of relationship, something not everyone was cut out for ...
'Division by Zero — Ted Chiang

Yeah," Chaz says. "You know, when you packed up all your stuff and left his ass high and dry, I thought finally. A woman with some moral fiber. Little did I know that all he'd need to win you back was a big diamond ring and few crocodile tears. I really expected bigger things from you, Lizzie. Tell me something. Are you going to wait until the invitations have actually gone out before you admit to yourself that Luke is that last guy you ought to be spending the rest of your life with? Or are you going to do the right thing and call if off now? — Meg Cabot

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics. — Ezra Koenig

The quest toward a windmill is more fulfilling than an empty stroll, sometimes, even if the windmill isn't real. — Elizabeth Silver

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others. — Anne Desclos

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another. — Richard Francis Burton

I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter. — Sandra Bullock

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball. — Penny Marshall

I had the feeling of being crushed under a rock till I could see only one crack of light, and that was the love of God. — Gerald Priestland