Linguistic Drift Quotes & Sayings

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt ... They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear — Ayn Rand

The joy is the journey of Life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If everyone fights with the power of their love, there will be happiness, not the destruction or war. — Debasish Mridha

Ortho Stice played with a kind of rigid, liquid grace, like a panther in a back-brace. — David Foster Wallace

When an experiment was to begin, all women were excluded for fear their irrational natures would influence the result, and an air of fervent concentration descended. — Iain Pears

One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that. — Mitch Leigh

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. — Mark Twain

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body") — Cornell Woolrich

It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I would always end the evening with a Bible passage. — Laurie Halse Anderson