Nutcracker Book Quotes & Sayings

The mind, it occurs to me, is an engine. There is an ambient mode in which the mind sits idling, before there is information. Some minds idle in a kind of dreading crouch, waiting to be offended. Others stand up straight, eyes slightly wide, expecting to be pleasantly surprised. Some minds, imaging the great What Is Out There, imagine it intends doom for them; others imagine there is something out there that may be suffering and in need of their help.
Which is right?
Neither.
Both.
Maybe all of our politics is simply neurology writ large. Maybe there are a finite number of idling modes. Maybe there are just two broad modes, and out of this fact comes our current division. — George Saunders

Was I made for Antonio by dint of my genetics? Was I an animal from birth? Had the ream me been dormant all this time? — C.D. Reiss

My angel-boy is close now, as in five-feet-away close. There's no way I'm going to burst into song in front of him. But then the contrary part of me says, you're going to let a boy keep you from singing out loud? Sing, sister! Sing!
So I do, and my angel-boy turns his head. — Lauren Myracle

I was the one that was always dancing and got along with everybody, but I also spoke my mind. If I didn't agree with something the teacher would say, I'd tell her, so I would get in trouble for things like that. I've always been a good/bad boy. — Shameik Moore

Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell. — Erica Jong

Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution. — Rush Limbaugh

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry. — Utada Hikaru

The best way to do comedy is to not filter yourself, and then you could always fix it later. You want to be able to push the envelope. — Ken Marino

This is why I prefer Queens to any other place. The borough of my parents and small business owners is populated by people who know how to work around the system when it tries to fuck you. — Jessica Valenti

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves. — Willis Regier

The Angels are not articulate about many things, but they bring a lover's inspiration to the subject of bikes. — Hunter S. Thompson

people are unable to process new information while they are experiencing shame. — Vicki Underland-Rosow

Work hard, and then let the universe take you where you're meant to go. — Alysia Reiner