Sandy Lyle Along Came Polly Quotes & Sayings

Do you know how to wrap a leg?'
'I was born wrapping legs,' I say stiffly, because I'm insulted.
'Must've been a challenging delivery,' Sean notes. — Maggie Stiefvater

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre. — Edmund White

A story is time itself, boxed and compressed. — Michael Paterniti

The time to prepare for life's disappointments and hurts is in advance. — Billy Graham

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way. — Haruki Murakami

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years. — Matt Ridley

What surprised him most, however, was the logic of his wings. They seemed so natural on that completely human organism that he couldn't understand why other men didn't have them too. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My freedom is not and cannot be something that I observe as I observe an outward fact; rather it must be something that I decide, moreover, without appeal. It is beyond the power of anyone to reject the decision by which I assert my freedom and this assertion is ultimately bound up with the consciousness that I have of myself. — Gabriel Marcel

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that. — Richard Powers

She had been taught in her girlhood to fondle and cherish those long-necked, sinuous creatures, the phrases of Chopin, so free, so flexible, so tactile, which begin by seeking their ultimate resting-place somewhere beyond and far wide of the direction in which they started, the point which one might have expected them to reach, phrases which divert themselves in those fantastic bypaths only to return more deliberately - with a more premediated reaction, with more precision, as on a crystal bowl which, if you strike it, will ring and throb until you cry aloud in anguish - to clutch at one's heart. — Marcel Proust

The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual inertia, yet many of us praise leaders who stubbornly stick to their views as "strong." — Max Tegmark

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca