Delectating Quotes & Sayings

He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what she perceived as her weakness. He suspected that the disease was the first time she hadn't been able to make everything come out all right through the sheer determination that it would be. — Tanya Huff

The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow. — R.D. Laing

Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level. — Lizz Winstead

I knew I was ignorant trying to be wise, lazy pretending to work hard, and over-sensitive to what others thought of me. — Ruth Swaner

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author. — Martin Amis

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. — Umberto Eco

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl. — Fiona Apple

I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be with you at the crash, you've got to put them on the manifest.' And so I was always of the view to almost leave no stone unturned when you're up there briefing the Hill. — Michael Hayden

He'd drop by her place later, see if she was still up. If not, he'd stare at her window, because why not, right? He was stupid with love. No shame in that — Kristan Higgins

But happiness only if I can raise the world into the Pure, the True, the Immutable. — Franz Kafka

Malavika Vishwanath. Don't try to say it you'll just piss me off. — Peter Clines

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us. — James Russell Lowell

In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like to be a part of this' — Steve Young