Spouted Bed Quotes & Sayings

Public opinion's always in advance of the law. — John Galsworthy

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern. — Lev Grossman

My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world. — Gustave Flaubert

Thoughtfully or thoughtlessly he had left the keys in the ignition, and I switched on the radio. It was tuned to WQED. A local arts reporter I didn't particularly admire was interviewing old Q. about his life and work and personal demons. I reflected for a moment on the journalistic euphemism that allowed personal demons to writers who were only fucked up. — Michael Chabon

My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s. — Chris LeDoux

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope. — Danny Boyle

I have not healed so much as learned to sit still and wait while pain does its dancing work, trying not to panic or twist in ways that make the blades tear deeper, finally infecting the wounds. — Lauren Slater

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion. — Aleister Crowley

Social motivations can drive far more participation than personal motivation alone — Clay Shirky

The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood. — Byron Katie

As brain functioning becomes more and more integrated, consciousness - the mind - becomes more and more invincible, and then any dictate of the mind is immediately followed by the body. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one. — Mary Roberts Rinehart