Deathshead Quotes & Sayings

A book is a dream you hold in your hands. — Neil Gaiman

I am staunchly committed to ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security and preserving full benefits for Americans who have spent their entire working lives contributing to this program. — Sue Kelly

The Berglunds were the super-guilty sort of liberals who needed to forgive everybody so their own good fortune could be forgiven; who lack the courage of their privilege — Jonathan Franzen

The Unicorn Sonata ... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it. — Peter S. Beagle

Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova. — Douglas Coupland

Because your eyes are slant and slow,
Because your hair is sweet to touch,
My heart is high again; but oh,
I doubt if this will get me much. — Dorothy Parker

Most bacteriologists were trained as medical men - Burnet himself had been, before going into bacteriological research - and "their interest in general biological problems was very limited." They cared about curing and preventing diseases, which was well and good; less so about pondering infection as a biological phenomenon, a relationship between creatures, equal in fundamental importance to such other relationships as predation, competition, and decomposition. — David Quammen

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture! — Carl Bernstein

The goal was to get sane, to get whole, to be complete enough to support someone else. — Emma Forrest

It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed. — Banana Yoshimoto

[A]n important new book ... Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics. — Daniel Finkelstein

A writer's job is never finished. — Sai Marie Johnson

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind. — Idries Shah

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love. — Robert Frost