Iconoclastic Def Quotes & Sayings

It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live. — Eddie Rickenbacker

My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic. — Shuji Nakamura

The mind that spontaneously thinks each and every day 'I may die today' is the realization of death. It is this realization that directly eliminates our laziness of attachment and opens the door to the spiritual path. — Kelsang Gyatso

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life. — Jane Pauley

The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production — Louis Althusser

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer. — Karin Slaughter

She has no idea. The effect she can have. — Suzanne Collins

We're not outside the world... We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see? If we don't say the words, what is their in our world? — Ursula K. Le Guin

The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have
keep swinging. — Hank Aaron

Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You look all elegant and sleek, like some golden and black cat. Then you go all ghetto on me when a pretty book shakes its ass in front of you. — Rhys Ford

I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect. — Pierre Beaumarchais

Reading is an enlightenment of the soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time. — Iain M. Banks

But Alma thought it would kill her, this profundity of sorrow. She could not sound out the bottom of it. She had been sinking into it for a year and a half, and feared she would sink forevermore. She cried herself out on Hanneke's neck, sobbing forth the harvest of her long-darkened spirits. She must have poured a tankard of tears down Hanneke's bosom, but Hanneke did not move or speak, except to repeat, There, there, child. It will not kill you. — Elizabeth Gilbert