Nick Dominates Quotes & Sayings

The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — Alfred North Whitehead

People "died" all the time ... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out ... you always knew when you made a decision against life. The door clicked and you were safe inside-safe and dead. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets ... — Dennis Miller

Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are and where you are in life. — D. Alyce Domain

No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely overwhelmed by it. — Carl Sagan

Unlike New York or Chicago, once you were inside Boston, any point in the city was fairly convenient to any other. — Matthew Pearl

He, as he told his tale, did not look her in the face, but sat with his eyes fixed upon her muff. — Anthony Trollope

If you can seem shiny and happy in front of a large group of people at once, you have witnesses and they will spread the word to the rest of the world. "Oh, I just saw her a couple of weeks ago. She seemed great!" And you're off the hook for a while, and probably a little exhausted. It — Kat Kinsman

If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for. — Billy Bob Thornton