Thissongslaps Quotes & Sayings

People have invoked the ghost of Hemingway quite a few times in writing about the book. I could get into sticky territory here if I let myself go on about this subject. The more I hear it, the more it rankles, frankly. — Ron Currie Jr.

The greatest political problem facing the world today is ... how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds. — Leonard Read

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration. — Anne Waldman

Be like snow - cold, but beautiful. — Lana Del Rey

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen. — Joseph Conrad

America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex. — Arianna Huffington

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table, — Louise Penny

It seemed so improbable. But so did everything else that I really paid attention to. — Carrie Saxifrage

The more I protested about this ambiguity, the more Joanna pointed out to me that it was both a terrible and wonderful part of life: terrible because you can't count on anything for sure - like certain good health and no possibility of cancer; wonderful because no human being knows when another is going to die - no doctor can absolutely predict the outcome of a disease. The only thing that is certain is change. Joanna calls all of this 'delicious ambiguity.' 'Couldn't there be comfort and freedom in no one knowing the outcome of anything and all things being possible?' she asked. Was I convinced? Not completely. I still wanted to believe in magic thinking. But I was intrigued. — Gilda Radner

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. — Johannes Stark

I am alive, and drunk on sunlight. — George R R Martin

Are you sure you can't dematerialize? Not even a little?"
"I'm sure. — Lauren Oliver