Lewters Hardware Quotes & Sayings

Plate glass ... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can see all that is happening outside. That is the equivalent of writing that is plain and unadorned. Ideally, in reading such writing, you are not even aware that you are reading. Ideas and events seem merely to flow from the mind of the writer into that of the reader without any barrier between. I hope that is what is happening when you read this book — Isaac Asimov

But then I found out that the poem she truly loved was the other one. She chose her own way. And I fell even more deeply in love with her. — Ally Condie

People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy. — Bo Burnham

Is it possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening "Do it again" to the moon." from Orthodoxy. — G.K. Chesterton

Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes above described? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes? — Isaac Newton

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity. — Hilda Solis

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously. — Carter Burwell

The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct. — Steve Redgrave

The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time, there is no reason to mistrust the same experiences in believers simply because they posit a supernatural source. The question is not, "Does God exist?" It's irrelevant. The question is whether believers and nonbelievers can rejoice in the same experiences and not denigrate the other's explanation as to the origins of very powerful human responses. — Norman Cota

If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting. — Heidi Julavits

Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me. — Haruki Murakami