Smarty Pants Similar Quotes & Sayings

The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all has been said, essentially in showing the world as opaque, as inaccessible to reason on principle. This happens when Piranesi in his imagined prisons depicts a world peopled by other beings than those for which it was created. ("On the Fantastic in Literature") — Lars Gustafsson

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning. — Phil Gingrey

We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon — Sarah MacLean

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. — Albert Camus

He [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying. — Philip Larkin

I knew that we were sharing something with our eyes, but I didn't know what, and I didn't know if it mattered. — Jonathan Safran Foer