Molecularly Distilled Quotes & Sayings

Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive goods, services, or money from the government without earning them. The onlookers easily adopt an attitude that they, too, are entitled to such transfers. They have fewer examples of hardworking, self-reliant people in their families or neighborhoods. — Robert Higgs

Not everyone strives to be fashionable. I don't, and I believe I succeed. — Joseph Epstein

Me do not live as you do. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent to far. — Holly Black

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart. — Sandra Cisneros

You make me laugh like a loon on loon tablets! — Louise Rennison

The doctor is the servant and the interpreter of nature. Whatever he thinks or does, if he follows not in nature's footsteps he will never be able to control her. — Giorgio Baglivi

Thou art my life, my love, my heart,
The very eyes of me:
And hast command of every part
To live and die for thee. — Robert Herrick

A plastic surgeon should never tell anybody to age gracefully. Rather his motto should be to make people age youthfully. — Jas Kohli

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody. — Scott Patterson

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images. — Bill Viola

Esti now discovered for the first time what intellectually fertile soil a railway compartment is. Here the lives of strangers appear before us in, as it were, cross section - suddenly and condensed - as in a novel opened haphazardly in the middle. Our curiosity, which otherwise we conceal by false modesty, can be satisfied under the constraint of our being enclosed together in a moving room, and we can peep into those lives and speculate on what the beginning of the novel must have been and how it will end. — Dezso Kosztolanyi

My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor. — Rebecca Stead

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building? — Sara Sheridan