Overruling Democracy Quotes & Sayings

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book ... an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg. — Scarlett Thomas

The plants in the garden - the aloes, the almond tree, the rose tree and the iris - were afraid of her. The flowers withered under her breath and the touch of her hand was leprous for the leaves. The plants whose growth is belief, whose breathing is hope, whose immobility is confidence and whose calyx is prayer, the plants who kept watch into the night, hated this women with the secret force of stars. — Hendrik Cramer

Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of such glorious confusion. — David Nicholls

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything. — Mark Thornton

Patience is sorrow's salve. — Winston Churchill

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about ... what kind of breakfast cereal you like. — Josh Homme

Keep an open mind, but no so open that your brains fall out — James Edward Oberg

In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring. — Eric Burdon

The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change. — David Suzuki

Nothing is more alluring to a man than a woman who looks good in her jeans. — Nina Garcia