Shot Book Page Quotes & Sayings

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. — David Suzuki

The shock caused by the fall of a careless word displaces that against which it strikes. At times it happens, without our knowing why, that because we have received an almost imperceptible blow from a chance word, the heart insensibly empties itself of love. He who loves, perceives a decline in his happiness. There is nothing more to be dreaded than this slow exudation from the fissure in the vase. — Victor Hugo

Nowadays, kids ... young actors ... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything. — Peter Capaldi

American literature has always been immigrant. — Salman Rushdie

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted. — Rick Moody

But sometimes, the things you wanted most were the things that would destroy you. — Cynthia Eden

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial? — Henry David Thoreau

We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it. — Iain M. Banks

By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more. — Joseph Addison

One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.' — Neale Donald Walsch