Hofstatter Materials Quotes & Sayings

I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger. — Chuck Palahniuk

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system. — Alex Tabarrok

We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality. — Robert H. Schuller

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things. — Roger Moore

A stiltskin is magic at its greatest. Pure magic, un-meddled-with and more powerful than any enchantment or spell. — Liesl Shurtliff

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! — Fritz Zwicky

Yoga makes you harmonious with nature and teaches you to be joyfully curious about your inner world. — Debasish Mridha

His question is pretty dangerous for me to try to answer, so I don't - it continues to hang out there like the stained underwear at a slumber party that goes unclaimed. — Jen Naumann

Sometimes, you have to step into oblivion, in order to paint success. — Lionel Suggs

Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly clear when my daughter communicates with me in the same ways that I communicate with her. I can really tell where and when I went wrong. — Harold Perrineau

I'm sorry for croaking at you this evening. This is PM, I'm Eddie Mair: the walrus of news. — Eddie Mair

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently. — Patrick DeWitt

I'm here with you, for you. And I won't let you go. — Rachel L. Demeter

I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too. — Melissa Jennings

I know you adore Father, but he isn't the white knight you imagine him to be. He never was. True, he's charming and loving in his way. But he's selfish. He's a limited man determined to bring about his own end-"
"But-"
Tom grabs both my hands in his and gives them a small squeeze. "Gemma, you can't save him. Why can't you accept that?"
I see my reflection on the surface of the Thames. My face is a watery outline, all blurred edges with nothing settled.
"Because if I let go of that" - I swallow hard, once, twice - "then I have to accept that I am alone."
The ship's horn howls again as it slips out toward sea. Tom's reflection appears beside mine, just as uncertain.
"We're every one of us alone in this world, Gemma." He doesn't say it bitterly. "But you have company, if you want. — Libba Bray