Surrenat20 Quotes & Sayings

A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd

the difficulty of a sentence depends not just on its word count but on its geometry. Good writers often use very long sentences, and they garnish them with words that are, strictly speaking, needless. But they get away with it by arranging the words so that a reader can absorb them a phrase at a time, each phrase conveying a chunk of conceptual structure. — Steven Pinker

Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia. — Robert Forster

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society. — Adam Carolla

There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life, you might reverse the process. — Hilary Mantel

No matter what Germany or Germans did, it was because they were defending themselves from international Jewry. The Jews were always the aggressor, the Germans always the victims. — Timothy Snyder

Cream - the richest, sweetest part of milk - is of course our first flavor, the taste, in a spoon, of life's first freshness and innocence, long before we ever encounter the taste of cooked food. And what is smoke - or ashes, with which one of the butters has been dusted - if not the very opposite of that freshness? There it is, innocence and experience mingled in a spoonful of ice cream. Bittor, whom no one would describe as a sunny man, has figured out a way to pass a fleeting, chill shadow of mortality over the formerly uncomplicated happiness of ice cream. A — Michael Pollan

Everybody wonders why he disappeared. I wonder why he came back. — David Levithan