Chomskys Quotes & Sayings

A biologist with a history of tooth decay invents a symbiotic microbe which lives in the human mouth and feeds by cleaning our teeth. It secreted calcium, which is poisonous to it, controlling its growth and preventing it from eating the teeth themselves. So this guy, he wants to spread the thing to the world, but it'd never fly, FDA and human squeamishness and all, so he becomes a party animal. He throws wild partys at the lab, kisses female grad students, where's, babies. He backwashes in sodas left on tables. He bums drags of cigarettes. He grants humanity eternally clean and healthy teeth but dies of a terrible cocktail of STDs. — James Curcio

Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there. — John Gimlette

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless. — Dionne Warwick

Claire thought you were a shapeshifting polar bear and Lana actually thought you were some kind of deity like Poseidon." Simon grinned. "She thought I was a god? Don't worry, after tonight, I'll prove to you that I am and much more. — Eve Langlais

They say that we are all haunted by a Spiritual Presence, of whose existence we are only fitfully and sometimes never conscious, — William T. Stead

Do you have difficulty sleeping?"
"Sometimes not. When I do it's bad, though. I lie there thinking about how everything I've done is a failure, death and failure, and there's no hope for me except being homeless, because I'm never going to be able to hold a job because everyone else is so much smarter. — Ned Vizzini

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Satan is both a fashion designer and an interior designer. He first appeals to the eye and then shouts, "Gotcha!" Then he goes to work on the "inside job. — Billy Graham

It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen. — Lev Grossman

You wanna know how to make God laugh?" he said. "Tell him your plans." (God-shaped Hole) — Tiffanie DeBartolo

42. Most people will spend their lives doing jobs that they don't particularly enjoy, and will eventually save up enough money to stop doing those jobs just in time to start dying instead. Don't be one of those people. There's a difference between living, and just surviving. Do something that you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It really is that simple.
And that hard. — John Connolly

I am a woman built on the wreckage of herself, Narrator — Chris Cleave