Ideenreiseblog Quotes & Sayings

Your guess is as good as mine. — Bonnie Lowenthal

One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter. — Joe Hill

Most of the monsters ... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist. — Edward Tufte

Violence against women is real and something I feel passionately about, and the gateway to all that is wolf whistling. It's allowing a man to impose his will on a woman who is just trying to walk down the street and live her life. It's all about unwanted versus wanted attention, and, of course, there's a fine line. — Elizabeth Banks

Balance eases the heart. — Nathan Ballingrud

She was sitting on the floor, naked, in a skitter of green bills. Beyond her was the custodian, still simpering in death. She was scooping up handfuls of the green money and dropping it on top of her head so that it came sliding down along the cream-colored hair, slipping down along her shoulders and body. She was making a noise I never heard come out of a human being. It was a scream that was a whisper and a laugh that was a cry. Over and over. The noise and the scooping. The slippery, sliding bills against the rigid body. She — Elliott Chaze

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters. — Alice Hamilton

A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of the most fascinating enigmas of our time. — Herbie Brennan