Jolting Surge Quotes & Sayings

She needs to sort out her priorities — J.K. Rowling

Yet economics purports to be strangely exempt from this fact of life. From Adam Smith's day to our own, the chief concern of the discipline has been to render economic events unsurprising ... The discernment of orderly rules governing the apparent chaos of life was a remarkable achievement and continues to amaze. — George Gilder

Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up. — Alex Scally

I like contrasting between black and white and color. — Robert Barry

That man's got a lot of get up and go," said Anita.
"He fills me full of lie down and die," said Paul. — Kurt Vonnegut

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down. — Missy Elliot

The belief that established science and scholarship
which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making
are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture! — Adrienne Rich

When a writer is born into a family, Czeslaw Milosz once famously said, the family is finished. You could forget about having any more secrets. You could forget about hiding what you didn't want others to know. You were going to be exposed, hung out to air, and by a traitor from within. But later I wondered, Is it the family that's really finished or simply the writer's place within it? Could a family still be a family with parts missing? — Judith Freeman

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination. — Robert Breault

All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace. — R.C. Sproul

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind — Henry David Thoreau

old-fashioned machinery, which he feared would not enlighten him greatly on modern — Thomas Hardy

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him. — Susanna Clarke

I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon. — Peter Ackroyd