Canarsie Pier Quotes & Sayings

Are the kids at school?"
"No, they're in the lake. My God. — Dave Eggers

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art. — Toni Morrison

My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind. — Shalom Auslander

{Letter to his brother, 1861}

... I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths... But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth, or believe that those will be better off in a future state who have lived in the belief of doctrines inculcated from childhood, and which are to them rather a matter of blind faith than intelligent conviction. — Alfred Russel Wallace

But this is not a book about robots. Rather, it is about how we are changed as technology offers us substitutes for connecting with each other face-to-face. — Sherry Turkle

But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless. — Milan Kundera

Most anti-vaccine books claim that all shots are bad, the diseases aren't really anything to fear, and as long as you live a natural and healthy lifestyle, you don't have to worry. I think this is a very irresponsible approach to the vaccine issue. Vaccines are beneficial in ridding our population of both serious and nonserious diseases. — Robert W. Sears

For the past, rightly understood, is no mere past — Rudolf Christoph Eucken

If I could choose where to go, " Carwyn resumed, as if I had not spoken at all. "If I could go anywhere in the world, I'd want to go with you. I don't want to be where it's safe. I want to be where you are. — Sarah Rees Brennan

The word cellulite, for example, first appeared in the April 15, 1968, issue of Vogue magazine, and this invented disease soon had a believer base worldwide: Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic styles. ... In a stunning move, an entire replacement culture was developed by naming a "problem" where it had scarcely existed before, centering it on the women's natural state, and elevating it to the existential female dilemma ... . The number of diet- related articles rose 70 percent from 1968 to 1972. — Timothy Ferriss

but neither of them seemed — Danielle Steel

One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent. — Edmar Mednis

Instead, the act of going back made new memories, and everytime I went I would add another layer on top of her memory, until eventually I'd buried them completely and all of those places stopped being about my past with her and became my present. — Cecelia Ahern

Martin nodded, his head snapping up and down. He was wearing baggy gray sweatpants and no shirt. His torso was soft and undeveloped and covered with a thick growth of fine hair. He squinted against the bright morning sun. Yeah, sure. What do you want? — Robert Crais