Cranky Mood Quotes & Sayings

One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten. — R. Scott Bakker

Go tell your general for me that if he does not immediately withdraw his men, I will send them to hell! — Sam Smith

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said that the limits of one's language were the limits of one's world. By coming up with fresh and arresting words to describe the world accurately, the writer expands the boundaries of her world, and possibly her readers' world, too. Real writing can do what R. P. Blackmur said it could: add to the stock of available reality. There — Mark Edmundson

Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years. — Thomas Sowell

Connie threw back her head, opened her mouth and cried to the heavens, as every sensation built and exploded inside her, fireworks and waterfalls, starburst and throbbing heat. — Lynne Connolly

The only test any book should ever have to pass is whether the reader likes it — Clay Shirky