Untaian Kata Quotes & Sayings

Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger. — Robin Marantz Henig

Carelessness, when it's continual, is as bad as intentional jerkiness. — Elizabeth Chandler

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. — Winston S. Churchill

I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time. — Drew Barrymore

Did I read The New Yorker? This question had a dangerous urgency. It wasn't any one writer or article he was worried about, but the font. The meaning embedded, at a preconscious level, by the look of the magazine; the seal, as he described it, that the typography and layout put on dialectical thought. According to Perkus, to read The New Yorker was to find that you always already agreed, not with The New Yorker but, much more dismayingly, with yourself. I tried hard to understand. Apparently here was the paranoia Susan Eldred had warned me of: The New Yorker's font was controlling, perhaps assailing, Perkus Tooth's mind. To defend himself he frequently retyped their articles and printed them out in simple Courier, an attempt to dissolve the magazine's oppressive context. Once I'd enter his apartment to find him on his carpet with a pair of scissors, furiously slicing up and rearranging an issue of the magazine, trying to shatter its spell on his brain. — Jonathan Lethem

Fundamental problems are the same for everyone," I reply as we move ahead again, then stop again. "Life, death, sickness, diets, relationships, bills that need to be paid. — Patricia Cornwell

Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see. — David J. Schwartz

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental. — Mason Cooley

Identity and resemblance would then be no more than inevitable illusions - in other words, concepts of reflection which would account for our inveterate habit of thinking difference on the basis of the categories of representation. — Gilles Deleuze

Courage conquers all things. — Ovid

I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses. — Sylvia Plath

It's hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government. — Chuck Todd

The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever. — John Muir

There is always unity at the end, and it brings a new tranquility. But the meeting of two worlds causes a lot of temporary chaos. — Amish Tripathi

suddenly he's forced to wonder if each Jawa is just a fraternity of wet rats gathering together under brown robes and a black face veil. — Chuck Wendig