Cxxvi In Numbers Quotes & Sayings

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. — Terry Pratchett

I want taquitos and a clown with no head! — Jhonen Vasquez

As I've gotten older, I can look at myself more clearly and own the things that I'm good at and work on the things that I'm not. Like, I am not skinny. I know that if I were to lose a little weight I'd literally have more time in the morning because I know clothes would fit better. And now I can look at those things more practically. Instead of being like, "What does that say about me?," now I'm just like, "That would be great to sleep in an extra fifteen minutes because I wasn't trying on everything in my closet." — Mindy Kaling

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order. — Toni Morrison

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real. — Salman Rushdie

Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. -Unknown — Caddy Rowland

If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my lights are one and the same. — C.D. Wright

I like to be useful to people. — Miuccia Prada

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end. — Remy De Gourmont

History is not "just one damn fact after another," as a cynic put it. There really are broad patterns to history, and the search for their explanation is as productive as it is fascinating. — Jared Diamond

I love music, and I once thought about doing a choral scholarship, but the people put me off. — Rory Kinnear

Misery loves company which is ironic because it rarely throws dinner parties. — Dov Davidoff

P24- the power of school loss to divide social reality has no boundaries education becomes unworldly and the world becomes noneducational — Ivan Illich

Some whites, who had never really understood, were offended by this sudden death of their role as the "good white leading the poor black out of the jungle." Many of these were among the saddest people of our time, good-hearted whites who had dedicated themselves to helping black people become imitation whites, to "bringing them up to our level," without ever realizing what a deep insult this attitude can be. — John Howard Griffin