Perturbations Pronounce Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell. — Tahereh Mafi

I believe every abortion is a tragedy. — Diane Abbott

Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to know that the story matters, enough of the fantastic to make what matters wonderful — Eric S. Rabkin

Tis the old wind in the old anger,
But then it threshed another wood. — A.E. Housman

Planet Earth thought it had £10. But it turns out we only had £2. Which means everyone must lose 80% of their wealth — Jeremy Clarkson

LET'S JUST HOPE WE ACCIDENTALLY BUILD GOD. — Douglas Coupland

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself. — John Lennon

I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better. — Halsey

Her beauty was not a sharp, cold commodity. She smelled musty, womanly, like a bundle of your favourite clothes... She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not (as with most of the girls Archie had run with in the past) like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it or when to just put it down. (~of Clara Bowden) — Zadie Smith

I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life. — Ted Danson

[I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United States are still being issued in West Africa and why American military forces are being deployed there without a workable plan or intelligible purpose, why CDC spending priorities are so skewed and CDC management so weak, and why here at home routine police powers aren't being used and routine public health measures aren't being implemented. — William Kristol