Ibukku Reviews Quotes & Sayings

Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation. — Simon Blackburn

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right. — Michael Crichton

Veda began it, but when she finished it, or whether she finished it, Mildred never quite knew. Little quivers went through her and they kept going through her the rest of the night, during the supper party, when Veda sat with the white scarf wound around her throat, during the brief half hour, while she undressed Veda, and put the costume away; in the dark, while she lay there alone, trying to sleep, not wanting to sleep.
This was the climax of Mildred's life. — James M. Cain

One grim Weltanschauung for this new era was well expressed by the Venetian nationalist demagogue in Michael Dibdin's novel, Dead Lagoon: There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are. These are the old truths we are painfully rediscovering after a century and more of sentimental cant. Those who deny them deny their family, their heritage, their culture, their birthright, their very selves! They will not lightly be forgiven. — Samuel P. Huntington

The love at Christmas should be with us throughout the coming year. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The reflection that you will find in the other of your own self may be ugly - that is the anxiety; avoid the mirror! But by avoiding the mirror you are not going to become beautiful. By avoiding the situation you are not going to grow, either. The challenge has to be taken. — Osho

What do I want?
The answer to that question does not exist. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Would you like a cough drop Dolores? — J.K. Rowling

No wolf falters before the bite
So strike
No hawk wavers before the dive
Just strike — Shannon Hale

Kami drew in a slow shuddering breath, and reached out for comfort where she could always find it. I can hear him coming back, she told Jared. I'm scared.
Don't be scared, Jared told her. He won't touch you. I'm coming, and I'm going to kill him. — Sarah Rees Brennan

when we awoke someone had stolen the sea. — Harry Turtledove

There is none more conformist than one who flaunts his individuality. — Rabih Alameddine

I pushed up against her warm tail and was asleep in 45 seconds. — Charles Bukowski