Fogbound Book Quotes & Sayings

Tocqueville remarks on this in Democracy in America. "An American," he wrote, "cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. — Neil Postman

He had to raise his voice to be heard over the wind. 'That Might be our future in that box.'
'The future is ours to take, Jack we don't need anybody to give it to us.' Walker looked out through the windows at the lake. It was immense. — Jack McDevitt

Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy. — Seth Godin

Inevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, a greater number of things, than we can directly observe. They have, therefore, to be pieced together out of what others have reported and what we can imagine. — Walter Lippmann

Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort. — Mandy Hale

I dipped into his brain. He wasn't happy that I wasn't wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking I was a bit too curvy for his taste. He was thinking he'd better not think about me that way anymore. He was missing his wife. — Charlaine Harris

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret. — Ted Williams

I try to have a balance of things you like and things you don't like about a character. But once you start that, all these scripts are like, "You play the douchebag friend of Ashton Kutcher." It's all these characters that are overconfident or hyper-masculine. — Jemaine Clement

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. — Julia Glass

The US has unthinkingly embarked upon a neoimperial policy that must involve us in virtually every great war of the coming century-and wars are the death of republics. If we continue on this course of reflexive interventions, enemies will one day answer our power with the weapon of the weak-terror, and eventually cataclysmic terrorism on US soil. — Pat Buchanan

Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by. — Henry David Thoreau

The existence of conscious minds and their access to the evident truth of ethics and methematics are among the data that a theory of the world and our place in it has yet to explain. — Thomas Nagel

If love is love, it's free. — Saul Bellow

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost! — Alexander Pope

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life. — Loretta Young