Chatelet Desk Quotes & Sayings

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book ... an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg. — Scarlett Thomas

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions. — Kim Chernin

Pornography is anything that depicts lewdness in such a way as to create impure thoughts and lusts. However, the sewers continue to flow, destroying the moral fabric of our society. — Billy Graham

Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food. — Richard Corliss

By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday. Gotta run! — Timothy Ferriss

Also your mom. Bro, I saw your mom kiss you on the cheek this morning, and forgive me, but I swear to God I was like, man, I wish I was Q. And also, I wish my cheeks had penises. — John Green

You don't have to slay a dragon to be perceived a hero - smiling at someone at the right moment might also do the trick. — Jury Nel

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction. — Rick Perry

Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them. — Chigozie Obioma

A book is a sacred gift. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He felt like he was losing a dream and a friend at the same time. — Debra Anastasia

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. — Iyanla Vanzant

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born. — George R R Martin