Hardbound Journal Quotes & Sayings

I'm separated by other performers with whom I might be lumped, since what I say is so intensely personal. I'm anti-art and anti-poetry. As much as possible, I want to inflict my personal pain on the rest of society. — Lydia Lunch

Principles which could be subverted by feeling in one direction were liable to the same catastrophe in another. The — Thomas Hardy

You're one to talk," she says. "You're always moping. We should start calling you Beatrice Prior, Queen of Tragedy. — Veronica Roth

A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can make abused people very fearful and they'll do what they're told. Hollywood definitely has a point of view that it sells. — Roseanne Barr

Okay, baby?
Riordan was walking toward me. I realized he was talking to me. — Josh Lanyon

a private enterprise is a failure, it closes down - unless it can get a government subsidy to keep it going; if a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. I challenge you to find exceptions. The — Milton Friedman

Never make a calculation until you know the answer. Make an estimate before every calculation, try a simple physical argument (symmetry! invariance! conservation!) before every derivation, guess the answer to every paradox and puzzle. Courage: No one else needs to know what the guess is. Therefore make it quickly, by instinct. A right guess reinforces this instinct. A wrong guess brings the refreshment of surprise. In either case life as a spacetime expert, however long, is more fun! — John Archibald Wheeler

To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder. — George Orwell

It ain't over til it's over.Yogi Berra
A good way to live one's life — Harold Kasselman

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings. — Henry David Thoreau

It's not as easy for her to tell what's in mine, though, because I have shutters and I close them whenever I have to. Like lately. — Jandy Nelson