Transected Quotes & Sayings

Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins. — Ricky Gervais

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world. — Lev Grossman

Blood squirted as his transected femoral artery haemorrhaged to the rhythm of his horrible heart.
- From Potter's Field — Patricia Cornwell

Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment. — Wolf Pascoe

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. — James Henry Breasted

a mind capable of forming an argument against God's existence constitutes evidence for his existence. That is, a conscious being with the ability to reason, weigh evidence, and argue logically must come from a source that has at least the same level of cognitive ability. — Nancy Pearcey

He couldn't keep his eyes off her face, wished she'd take off those damned sunglasses so he could see the eyes he'd known so well. — Ken Grimwood