Insidiousness Quotes & Sayings

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of. — Matsuo Basho

I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and heartbreakingly real at the same time. I don't know how she does it. — Julia Quinn

The shelter worker said, "This one hates everything and she doesn't know anything, and I hope you aren't planning on taking her outside ever because she's more like a bear than a dog, really, and unfortunately, she can scale a seven-foot-tall fence like the fucking Spider-Man." And we were like, "Sure, why not. — Allie Brosh

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre. — Cate Blanchett

Above all, the earth is moving in a void. All efforts of man to improve it are a vain endeavour. — Sibaprasad Dutta

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted. — Bradley Whitford

Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond the mind, you have entered the world of nirvana, you have entered the world of light and eternal life. You have attained to spiritual integrity, freedom, and tremendous ecstasy which the mind cannot even dream about. — Rajneesh

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine. — Rumi

Freeing oneself from words is liberation. — Bodhidharma

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. — Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

There are crimes which the Law cannot reach. — Dorothy L. Sayers

You know, women used to rule the world until they got men to do it for them. — Rita Mae Brown

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow. — Joanne Harris

What you read when you don't have to ... — Oscar Wilde

I acknowledge that I could never convey just what was so dreadful about this tableau of a bright, utterly silent room full of men immersed in work. It was the type of nightmare whose terror is less about what you see than about the feeling you have in your chest and stomach about what you're seeing. — David Foster Wallace

That's part of the insidiousness of addiction, I thought. You remember the depth and blackness of the hole you were in and not the strength it took to pull yourself out. "I — Emma Scott