Surrogating Quotes & Sayings

In a radiated planet, the walking dead might be the only creatures left "alive." We — Max Brooks

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience. — Sara Blakely

The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country ... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example. — Samuel Smiles

She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet. — Emma Donoghue

Somehow we all end up paying for what we do. — William J. Clinton

The pejorative term "political correctness" was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe — Judith Martin

For those who can, one of the things to do is not to move. To stay put. That doesn't mean don't travel; it means have a place and get involved in what can be done in that place. That's the only way we're going to have a representative democracy in America. Nobody stays anywhere long enough to take responsibility for a local community. — Gary Snyder

We know what it's like to need to hold on. We hold on to you. Which is to say, we hold on to life. — David Levithan

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. — Comte De Lautreamont

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance. — Fernand Braudel

For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture. — Louise Bourgeois

A shout for help isn't always a cry of pain; sometimes it is a hymn of praise. — Joyce Rachelle

So with imagination, ingenuity and audacity, explore, discover, change the world. And have fun while you're at it. Always take time out to love and to live. You're going to be busy, but never forget family and friends. — Daniel Goldin

we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world. Well, — Michael Marshall Smith

So grown women could smell it again, that chemical, flowery fug. That's how badly people wanted it - to know that their lives had happened, that the person they once had been still existed inside of them. There — Emma Cline