Nonthreateningly Quotes & Sayings

With words we begin to leave traces behind us like breadcrumbs: memories in symbols for others to follow. Ants deploy their pheromones, trails of chemical information; Theseus unwound Ariadne's thread. Now people leave paper trails. — James Gleick

Black is not sad ... Black is poetic. — Ann Demeulemeester

It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones.
It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break
these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward? — Laurie Halse Anderson

The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe. — Mikhail Gorbachev

A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong. — Pamela McCorduck

Tomer: "What's this?"
Cabinet: "Wt's ths?"
Wedge: "Cabinet."
Tomer: "I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking."
Cabinet: " ... ts tlkng"
Janson: "Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces."
Tycho: "He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all."
Hobbie: "Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything. — Aaron Allston

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God. — Mahatma Gandhi

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time. — Antony Gormley

Most movies, I forget about them while I'm watching them. I go every single day. But I've never thought about participating in any way. It's like being at home all day. It was never a goal to me. — David Sedaris

But what parent can tell when some ... fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small seed of information passed from one generation to another may generate a new science, a new industry-a seed which neither the giver nor the receiver can truly evaluate at the time. — Helena Rubinstein

Christ is no Moses, no law-giver, no tyrant, but the Mediator for sins, the Giver of grace and life. — Martin Luther

A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance. — Garrett Hedlund

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. — George Eliot

Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials. — Clarke Peters