Evan Greenberg Quotes & Sayings

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. — Octavio Paz

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. — Erich Fromm

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation. — Steven Pinker

He grabbed my chin, pulling me towards him. 'In my dreams,' he told me, his voice still as hard and cold as an iceberg, 'more interesting things happen. Things that involve the two of us'. — Robert Thier

The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same. — George R R Martin

Hunger of the heart is much stronger than hunger for food. — Amanda Comer

It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged. — Witold Gombrowicz

This fact may safely be made the subject of suspense since it is of no significance whatsoever. — Douglas Adams

I'm very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing ... any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that. — Sarah Palin

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. — Alfred North Whitehead

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read. — Mark Haddon

I am so happy, so in love, and so content. — Brooke Burns

There'll be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes there'll be sorrow — Joni Mitchell

Food is all about balance; it is all about taste. — Michael Mina

Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health. — Nikki Haley