Monolithically Define Quotes & Sayings

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making. — Yo-Yo Ma

When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up. — Rita Ora

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience. — Annie Proulx

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories. — Umberto Eco

Everywhere Gage looked, his fingers itched to touch and his brain raced to keep up. A snake coiled beneath his right pec, an eagle took flight over his left. Stars, numbers, and Celtic symbols fought for real estate. Gage would need weeks to explore the storied terrain of Brady's body.
Better put in for some vacation time now. — Kate Meader

The year now is 1774. Poseurs or not, it is time to grow up. It is time to enter the public realm, the world of public acts and public attitudes. Everything that happens now will happen in the light of history. It is not a midday luminary, but a corpse-candle to the intellect; at best, it is a secondhand lunar light, error-breeding, sand-blind and parched. — Hilary Mantel

One's-Self I Sing
One's-self I sing, a simple separate person,
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.
Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say
the Form complete is worthier far,
The Female equally with the Male I sing.
Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
The Modern Man I sing. — Walt Whitman

You admit, then, that your world is not real? That it is a forgery?" Zina hesitated. "It branched off at crucial points, due to our interference with the past. Call it magic if you want or call it technology; — Philip K. Dick

Be the rising Moon in my dark nights.
I am thirsty for your Light. — Rumi

When is a game not a game? When the game is afoot. — Evelyn Cullet

It is a torture to see people whom you don't like. — Nikita Dudani

I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II. — Marlin Fitzwater