Luisina Ordonez Quotes & Sayings

It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself anything that carried the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called. — George Orwell

Close your eyes and visualize having what you already want - and the feeling of having it already. — Rhonda Byrne

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs. — Olivia Wilde

Fuck you," he said, resorting to that last argument of vice presidents. — Cherie Priest

You need a story to displace a story. Metaphors and stories are far more potent (alas) than ideas; they are also easier to remember and more fun to read. If I have to go after what I call the narrative disciplines, my best tool is a narrative.
Ideas come and go, stories stay. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The only thing worse than an unlovable woman was an unlovable woman who whined about not being loved. — Courtney Milan

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. — Robert Delaunay

In literature one has the best company in the world at complete command; one also has the worst. One has a social conscience which dissuades one from harbouring unprofitable company in life, and I find that my two canons are a great aid and support for an analogous literary conscience which speaks up against consorting with unprofitable company in literature. — Albert Jay Nock