Habitituated Quotes & Sayings

The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department. — Jamaica Kincaid

If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats. — Paul Gallico

There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond. — Corey Hart

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams. — Alastair Campbell

Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul," concluded Tarzan, — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Keeping him in here is like snuggling up to a bomb, content that it's not going to explode simply because you can still hear it ticking. — Brandon Sanderson

This place sickened him. Anywhere else, you simply killed your enemy with a sword. Or poisoned him, if you had the honourless instincts of an assassin. Here, it was layer upon layer of constructed double-dealing, dark, polished and unpleasant. He would have assumed tonight the product of Laurent's own mind, if Laurent were not so clearly the victim. — C.S. Pacat

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. — Arnold J. Toynbee

Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error. — Tony Blair

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life. — Theodor Adorno

Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man may still wonder once in a while and ask: how is it that I, poor earth-habitituated animal, can fly? — Wolfgang Langewiesche

Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight. — Gene Wolfe

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama. — Al Green

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. — Joey Adams