Newtonian Reflector Quotes & Sayings

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding
which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together
blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author ... — Lemony Snicket

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers. — Janet Echelman

What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. From whom? From misery. From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. — Victor Hugo

Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray. — Jonathan Jackson

You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed. — Annie Lennox

Not that I've always agreed with what she said - far from it - but Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been properly lauded, in my view, as a judge who approached her duties with open-mindedness and with a sensitivity that affects her decisions would have on everyday, ordinary people. — Joe Biden

I look forward to the day when a mongolian idiot, treated biochemically, becomes a successful geneticist. — Jerome Lejeune

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child's suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon
the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I need to fuck her, messy, hot, and wild. I want her body, her touch, her light to replace all the darkness that creeps into my dreams. — Karina Halle

I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure. — Kevin Costner

I no longer needed to fuck her as hard as I hated myself. — Jessica Gadziala

It could be thousands of people or just two, but I can't hide behind anything when I am singing my own songs. — Syesha Mercado

A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded. — Ken Singleton

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins. — Alvin Dark