Kolbert Mattie Quotes & Sayings

People say they want to read about life but that's not what they want at all. They want a version of life. Don't you realize, someone else's version of someone else's life is still fiction? It's still a story. But it has no imagination. That's what you people have done. You've murdered imagination. — Andersen Prunty

Think good, speak good and do good, to bring about positive change in the world. — Shari Arison

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. — Harlan Miller

Mile's fingers pressed into the small of my back. "Basorexia," he mumbled.
"Gesundheit."
He laughed. "It's an overwhelming desire to kiss."
"I thought you weren't good at figuring out what you felt."
"I'm probably using the word in the wrong context. But I'm pretty sure that's what this is. — Francesca Zappia

I feel weird spilling it now but have to. Because after a while, it took root, the way shared stories do when you live with them long enough. They affect your DNA like radiation. They give birth to you. — Kelly J. Cogswell

Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know. — Andy Whitfield

Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of yourself, and shake out your darkest feelings, without worrying that people would think you were strange. While I was writing, I would forget myself and everyone else; poetry made me feel part of something noble and beautiful and bigger than me. [ ... ] I slid them under the carpet as soon as they were done, all the images and rhymes wrestled into place. By the time I had copied them out, I found I had memorized every line. Then they would surprise me by surging through me, like songs I knew by heart. — Andrea Ashworth

Where's the victory without opposition?--Joel — Rachael Wade

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do. — Oliver Stone

We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it. — Jack Dangermond

Who is there with you?"
"Raphael"
Kate's voice snapped. "I'll be in Atlanta in three hours. Where are you?"
"I said it's nothing major."
"Bullshit. You wouldn't work with Raphael unless the Apocalypse was imminent and that was the only way to prevent it. — Ilona Andrews

A magic dwells in each beginning,
protecting us, telling us how to live ... — Hermann Hesse

Diogenes, the Greek philosopher who founded the Cynical school, lived in a barrel. When Alexander the Great once visited Diogenes as he was relaxing in the sun, and asked if there were anything he might do for him, the Cynic answered the all-powerful conqueror, 'Yes, there is something you can do for me. Please move a little to the side. You are blocking the sunlight. — Yuval Noah Harari

the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end. Every — George Orwell