Micro Tales Quotes & Sayings

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe. — Samuel Johnson

Probably nobody ever jogs toward the room where they will write their suicide note, — Donald E. Westlake

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB. — Mathias Rust

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. — Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

If you do not pay for a service, you are the product they sell. So it ever has been. — Tom Webster

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved. — K.d. Lang

If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones. — Neil Gaiman

Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them. — Benjamin Franklin

I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do. — Jeanette Winterson

I want to tell him more, too. I always want to tell him more, but now that I know he's listening- really listening- it means something different. — David Levithan

Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence. — Ibn Khaldun

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind. — Manuel Alvarez Bravo

A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away. — Janet Jackson

... and once again ... we will head toward that time. — CLAMP