Nontraveling Quotes & Sayings

Basically, if you put a fence around New York City, you'd have the world's biggest nontraveling circus. — James Patterson

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My dad was a magician too. Got in his car and disappeared. — Cath Crowley

First principle: there's no such thing as reality. We make it up by perceiving stimuli from the environment - external or internal - and making statements about it. Everybody perceives stuff, everybody makes up statements about it, everybody - so far as we can tell - agrees enough to get by, so that when I say 'Hand me the coffee' you know what to hand me. And that's reality. Second principle; people get used to a certain kind of reality and come to expect it, and if what they perceive doesn't fit the set of statements everybody's agreed to, either the culture has to go through a kind of fit until it adjusts...or they just blank it out. — Suzette Haden Elgin

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida. — Helen Van Slyke

Nothing seemed to give me pleasure anymore, not even music. My attitude was becoming more and more fatalistic and hopeless. I had no enthusiasm, and no particular interest in anything, including sex. It was as though I'd become a passionless robot, simply existing from day to day without feeling. — Scott Pratt

Kate made a concerted effort not to drift into mommy terrain when she was with them, though she sometimes slipped and saw their eyes glaze over, like her older sister's would. — Nichole Bernier

I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level. — Jacob Hashimoto

Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming. — Nick Harkaway

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell. — Francis Quarles

They had chosen to make the leap and, having leapt, were delighted to find that the world was even more beautiful than they'd hoped. — Emma Straub

I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek. — Selwyn Hughes