Summarily Def Quotes & Sayings

I believe that death means 'loss'. — Otsuichi

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me. — Isaac Newton

There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped. — Rebecca West

No man ever became extremely wicked all at once. — Juvenal

A linguist who specialised in the languages of incense and burnt offerings, of moths and radial cremations. — Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life. — Miriam Toews

The highly industrialized factory farm is entirely dependent on "purchased inputs." The agrarian farm, well integrated into the natural systems that support it, runs to an economically significant extent on resources and supplies that are free. It — Wendell Berry

There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen. — Joe Perry

When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants. — Joe Torre

I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it. — Mitt Romney

People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are. — W. Somerset Maugham

The third week of June, and there it is again: the same almost embarrassing familiar breath of sweetness that comes every year about this time. I catch it on the warm evening air as I walk past the well-ordered gardens in my quiet street, and for a moment I am a child again and everything before me - all of the frightening, half-understood promises of life. — Michael Frayn

I don't enjoy doing stand-up. I see it as being like exercise: I feel good about it after I've done it. — Jessie Cave

If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame. — Alison Gopnik

Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life. — Lysa TerKeurst