Nolo Quotes & Sayings

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. — Lewis Thomas

I don't keep a mobile, I am not computer savvy; I am not on any website. I live like a cave man. — Cyrus Broacha

Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here. — Hugh Prather

I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead.
[Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things and never shuts up. — Todd Newton

On Beauty

No, we could not itemize the list
of sins they can't forgive us.
The beautiful don't lack the wound.
It is always beginning to snow.

Of sins they can't forgive us
speech is beautifully useless.
It is always beginning to snow.
The beautiful know this.

Speech is beautifully useless.
They are the damned.
The beautiful know this.
They stand around unnatural as statuary.

They are the damned
and so their sadness is perfect,
delicate as an egg placed in your palm.
Hard, it is decorated with their face

and so their sadness is perfect.
The beautiful don't lack the wound.
Hard, it is decorated with their face.
No, we could not itemize the list.

Cape Cod, May 1974 — Zadie Smith

Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet. — Patrick Leahy

Success always leaves footprints. — Booker T. Washington

The Supreme Court has declared that such a plea of nolo contendere "admits guilt for the purposes of the case. — George W. Stocking

Limbs of a dismembered poet. — Horace

You've never had wok-seared spicy broccoli until you've had takeout trans-temporal wok-seared spicy broccoli delivered by a copy of yourself. — Magnus Von Black

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. — Benjamin Disraeli

The award for excessive success is eternal doubt and eventual failure."
"So what, it's stupid to even try?"
"No. It's unwise to hope."
- Something Like Stardust — Genevieve Ross

The past, boxed up and stacked out of sight. But never too far away — Megan Miranda

Bastard, she spat at him, and she thought he had moved closer. She swung at him, and then suddenly he was where he had been standing all along, the coward. — Robin Hobb

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress. — Nate Silver