Soirees De Vienne Quotes & Sayings

And she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart. — Augusten Burroughs

Rose had a kitchen that was so completely alphabetized, you'd find the allspice next to the ant poison. She was a fine one to talk about the Leary men. — Anne Tyler

When the passion isn't there, the drive isn't there and it just doesn't last for me. — Aeriel Miranda

Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems. — Jonathan Gottschall

In our time, in particular, many people are not only estranged from some of them but are denied the chance to encounter them. — Yuval Levin

I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to 'real life' - he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit. In fact, 'Slaughterhouse-Five' seemed to be saying that our most profound experiences may require this artistic uncoupling from the actual. The black box is meant to change us. If the change will be greater via the use of invented, absurd material, so be it. — George Saunders

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed. — Zelda Fitzgerald

They found each other's hands in the dark, and an angel with chipped marble wings watched over them as they slept. — Mindy McGinnis

I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God? — Mark Twain

The more he saw of this life the more he realised he just wanted what he'd always wanted: Nikolas bloody Mikkelsen. — John Wiltshire

Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground. — Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla

I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had no idea of the trouble which trying to write common English could cost one - And alas there yet remains the worst part of all correcting the press. — Charles Darwin

To Love oneself is Ok but,to love only oneself isn't! — Krishna Kumar Kanagal