Preternaturally Strange Quotes & Sayings

I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in. — Sylvia Plath

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one. — Florence Griffith Joyner

Can we cut the Zen crap for a moment?" I ask. "I'm trying to beat this bag to a pulp. — Mari Mancusi

In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and science. In his own field - though, of course, on a proportionately lesser scale - Wells may be likened to Dostoyevsky, who took the form of the cheap detective novel and infused it with brilliant psychological analysis. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The legs are the wheels of creativity. — Albert Einstein

It wasn't her bother that she'd needed to make herself whole again; it was Peter. And now that she knew, now that she finally realized it
in the same manner she came to realize most things: gradually, stubbornly, and then all at once
it was like she'd always known it, like there was never any other way it could have been. — Jennifer E. Smith

Let's not pretend you were some innocent little lamb," he scowls. "You gladly swallowed my cock. — Nina G. Jones

A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm. — Bill Bryson

It has thick skin, and all the most important thinkers have become part of it. — N.D. Wilson

What counts is to be true, and then everything fits in, humanity and simplicity. — Albert Camus

Then I should have chosen a career for myself, I should have been a sluggard and a glutton, not a simple one, but for instance, one with sympathies for everything sublime and beautiful. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky