The Bell Jar Electroshock Therapy Quotes & Sayings

You are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, therefore, don't flatter your adult agency, or even ignore it - they supplant it. — David Foster Wallace

The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you. — Yul Vazquez

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition. — Ralph Adams Cram

She always imagined their voices entangled somewhere in the wires when they spoke, caught up in a grid she didn't fully understand, passing back and forth. Once the calls were disconnected, she imagined the echoes of old conversations would be trapped there, floating back and forth with no exit, like ghosts. — Lauren Oliver

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No. — Amy Grant

A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn't. — Deb Caletti

What I always seemed to be searching for was acceptance of the part of my soul that dictated my homosexuality. Elliot allowing me to plunge into his body was the ultimate acceptance of that part of me. He knew about that part, he understood that part, he rejoiced in that part, and he loved that part. And the little five-year-old boy inside of me who'd lost his mother desperately wanted to be loved. — Anonymous

Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity - and I know we can do this. — Paul Ryan

Dynamic capability is the ability to reconfigure your organization in the way that has the effect of increasing its variety. — Pearl Zhu

Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it. — Leo Tolstoy

I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually ... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.' — Adam Driver

George R.R. Martin is not your bitch. — Neil Gaiman

I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years of teaching and I hope my students have benefited from it. — Joel Greenblatt

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky