Deducted Def Quotes & Sayings

Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries. — Clifford Stoll

I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do. — Margaret Forster

It's right that you should do so, Fire. It's right and it's your right, because you're my beautiful child, and beauty has rights that plainness never will. — Kristin Cashore

Life is a test. Without problems to solve, it wouldn't be much of a test. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it. — Jenny Slate

I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia. — Anna Quindlen

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education. — Ed Markey

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. — Susan B. Anthony

Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ. — Rajneesh

turn into a literal one. — Lemony Snicket

But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the face of sacrifice and suffering is the dark mirror image of pleasure and enjoyment, that every moment of arrival is to be treasured and enjoyed in the full knowledge that it has brought us a moment closer to the moment of departure. — Francine Prose

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. — Chuck Palahniuk

I'll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don't, that's fine too. But you should probably read more. — Tony Wilson

Leave the fireworks for those who cast no spark of their own. — Karen Abbott