Sveum Ejected Quotes & Sayings

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms. — Muriel Rukeyser

Do you have any idea how late it is? Go to sleep," she scolded as she hurried past him.
"I know, I'm going to bed right now ... Hey! YOU go to sleep," Jerry scolded back, belatedly remembering that he was the parent. — Josephine Angelini

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string. — Julian Barnes

The town of Verona was very much awake. The market was filled with merchants selling items they couldn't sell during the light of day, to people who wouldn't be seen in town without the veil of night. — Emily Whitaker

I tried pulling myself out of the gutter once," Natty snickered. "I got bored. — S.J.D. Peterson

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral. — Lady Randolph Churchill

You are responsible for understanding your limitations. — Sara Genn

Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple. — Kate Milford

The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220) — Steven Pinker