Cheairs Cemetery Quotes & Sayings

A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let's not kid ourselves - all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences. — Tom Robbins

I think women love to read love stories. — E.L. James

Once we get those muddy, maddening, confusing thoughts [nebulous worries, jitters, and preoccupations] on the page, we face our day with clearer eyes. — Timothy Ferriss

The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation. — Karl Popper

There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance. — Alfred Kinsey

To the success of our hopeless cause — Robert Littell

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally. — Maria Doyle Kennedy

Heracles was strangely silent. What is he thinking? / Geryon wondered. / Geryon watched prehistoric rocks move past the car and thought about thoughts. / Even when they were lovers / he had never known what Herakles was thinking. Once in a while he would say, / Penny for your thoughts! / and it always turned out to be some odd thing like a bumper sticker or a dish / he'd eaten in a Chinese restaurant years ago. / What Geryon was thinking Herakles never asked. In the space between them / developed a dangerous cloud. — Anne Carson

Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing. — Ron Rash

More money has been lost because of four words than at the point of a gun. Those words are 'This time is different. — Carmen M. Reinhart

The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor. — Rick Smolan