Glenway Animal Hospital Quotes & Sayings

In proportion to his intelligence he was extremely isolated. There's no record of his having had close friends. He traveled alone. Always. Even in the presence of others he was completely alone. People sometimes felt this and felt rejected by it, and so did not like him, but their dislike was not important to him. His wife and family seem to have suffered the most. His wife says those who tried to go beyond the barriers of his reserve found themselves facing a blank. My impression is that they were starved for some kind of affection which he never gave. No one really knew him. That is evidently the way he wanted it, and that's the way it was. Perhaps his aloneness was the result of his intelligence. Perhaps it was the cause. But the two were always together. An uncanny solitary intelligence. — Robert M. Pirsig

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Veil wouldn't make his military invincible, but it would render every other military indefensible. Veil was it. Game over, fuckholes. — Aaron Overfield

It is remarkable that a fist-gnawingly dire England performance still has the power to shock, when in some ways this one had all the exquisite unpredictability of Norman Wisdom approaching a banana skin in the immediate vicinity of a swimming pool...
The England shirt is the precise opposite of a superhero costume, turning men with extraordinary abilities into mild-mannered guys next door. Were Stephen Fry to pull it on, he would struggle to string a sentence together. Were Lucian Freud to slip it over his head he would turn his easel round to reveal a childlike scribble of a cat. — Marina Hyde

Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something amazing about sharing that experience with someone else. — Ingrid Michaelson

The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous. — Barbara Demick

Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives. — China Mieville

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out. — Norman Vincent Peale

It eat my brain?" I ask. He looks confused. "No." "Mind control?" I ask. "I wish. — Amy A. Bartol

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk. — Bob Woodward

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for. — Salman Rushdie

Real Christianity is based upon God's word given to us through the scriptures, and His word is final. — Monica Johnson