Contestable Market Quotes & Sayings

Silence is the herald of joy — William Shakespeare

I had one last try.
"Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering.
"Well, no," he said slowly, "so long as it doesna bother you that I am." He grinned at my drop-jawed expression, and backed toward the door.
"Reckon one of us should know what they're doing," he said. The door closed softly behind him; clearly the courtship was over. — Diana Gabaldon

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn't it? — Haruki Murakami

I don't prefer to fill my body with antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and growth hormones - my body is my temple, and I treat it as such. — Suzanne Whang

Truth comes home to the mind so
naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more
than recall it to our memory. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know? — Brian Wilson

But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage. — Maria Konnikova

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it. — Albert Camus

One of the sadder things, I think,
Is how our birthdays slowly sink:
Presents and parties disappear,
The cards grow fewer year by year,
Till, when one reaches sixty-five,
How many care we're still alive? — Philip Larkin

'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world. — Robin Wasserman