Mittelbare Quotes & Sayings

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it. — Rose Tremain

There are choices you make not by planning but (as you make your shadow) by being where you are — Benjamin Taylor

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness. — Warren Farrell

I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland. — Sharon Horgan

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society. — Mary Wollstonecraft

The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence ... The individual, in order to make use of technical instruments, no longer needs to know about his civilization. — Jacques Ellul

Emergence is popular because it is the junk food of curiosity. You — Eliezer Yudkowsky

It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads. — Ian MacKaye

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with. — Marsha Norman

Some like to imagine
a cosmic mother watching through a spray of stars,
mouthing 'yes, yes' as we toddle towards the light,
biting her lip of we teeter at some ledge. longing
to sweep us to her breast, she hopes for the best. — Tracy K. Smith

Your parents died. Your world fell apart."
I nod.
He puts his hand on my cheek. "You were left drowning"
I nod again.
"And you're struggling to breathe"
I am. It's a constant struggle to stay near the surface I have just enough air to stop me from going totally under, but not enough to thrive.
"So do it. Breathe. Just Breathe." He turns up the volume and strokes my hair. — Jessica Park

He ran like if he kept running he could escape the last thousand years. — Catherynne M Valente

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time. — Gertrude Atherton