Newsstands San Francisco Quotes & Sayings

As I have heard it put, a critical thinker is good at distinguishing gold from bullshit — Howard Margolis

Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely. — Jim McKay

Let's say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with. — Ernest Hemingway,

For a flicker of a moment our gazes held, sweet and tormented. — Julia Day

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws. — Oscar Wilde

Sometimes I wonder," I said, "if people who are going to tell the truth shouldn't make sure first that they can defend themselves. — Saul Bellow

We use other people's brains to navigate the world: to acquire skills and practices, and to access knowledge systems of long-dead strangers. We call this 'culture'. — Mark Earls

I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness. — Carson Cistulli

The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice. — Swami Vivekananda

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution. — Kerry Greenwood

All sound arises out of Silence
and dissolves into Silence.
All thought arises out of Silence
and dissolves into Silence.
The universe arises out of Silence
and dissolves into Silence.
Suffering arises out of Silence
and dissolves into Silence.
The unbounded spaciousness of Silence,
filled with the clear light of Awareness,
dissolves the roots of pain and sorrow.
Take refuge in Silence and know
unshakable joy — Lord Dunsany

A little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world. — L.M. Montgomery

Someone said to me that we have to encourage more young women to want top-level editing jobs. I think that will happen naturally as we have more role models, more examples of boss ladies who aren't sad and cruel and overworked and undersexed like in DevilWearsPrada, but who are straight-up owning it and notable not for their gender but for their editorial savvy. — Ann Friedman

Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters. — Neil Gaiman

He's sitting alone at the kitchen table, a half-emptied bottle of white liquor in one fist, his knife in the other. Drunk as a skunk. — Suzanne Collins