Tossicit Quotes & Sayings

Reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations. — Deepak Chopra

As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life. — Jodi Picoult

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate. — Chinua Achebe

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold. — Vanna Bonta

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little. — Samuel Johnson

As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. — Walker Percy

Without privacy there was no point in being an individual. — Jonathan Franzen

Every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons. — Mary Barnett Gilson

I honestly believe in a force that's larger than our own. — Grace Gealey

Poor people wait a lot. Welfare, unemployment lines, laundromats, phone booths, emergency rooms, jails, etc. — Lucia Berlin

Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels. The company-city subgenre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped "the company." I've never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company. In real life, that's the way it will be. That's the way it always is. — Octavia E. Butler

Love and Doubt are not on speaking terms — Kahlil Gibran

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art. — E. M. Forster