Natals Quotes & Sayings

Tasting is an act of pleasure, and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast. — Muriel Barbery

I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures. — Richard Thaler

Hannah Arendt scorned this preoccupation with death and proposed a new symbolism that emphasized not the inevitability of our dying, but the actuality of our living. She wanted us to think of ourselves, not as mortals, but as natals, as those who are alive; and she wanted us to act for love not hatred of the world ... In her exposition of Arendt, [Jantzen] points out that Christianity's preoccupation with death and salvation worked against a sense of connection to the web of life,'and taught people to be homeless in the world'. — Richard Holloway

Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast. — Linda Nelson

You don't need to require a woman to be what you want her to be; you have to inspire her to be what you want her to be". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha. — Sloane Crosley

Love as if life is forever. Life without love has nothing to share. — Debasish Mridha

I don't know your customs, but here, if you don't want to frighten someone, you don't go looming over their sleeping body with knives. — Laini Taylor

It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem. — Jehane Noujaim

I would love a little bit of a change. — Danielle Panabaker

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. He was about to engage in some hellaciously naughty fornication. — Kendall Grey

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side. — Roz Savage

What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs. — Rex Stout

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death. — Diane Ackerman

My spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; — Charlotte Bronte