Wadded Towel Quotes & Sayings

How long could we remain true to the girls? How long could we keep their memory pure? As it was, we didn't know them any longer, and their new habits - of opening a window, for instance, to throw out a wadded paper towel - made us wonder if we had ever really known them, or if our vigilance had been only the fingerprinting of phantoms. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The U.S. stock market now trades inside black boxes, in heavily guarded buildings in New Jersey and Chicago. — Michael Lewis

We are all broken, but none of us are beyond fixing. — Bella Forrest

Philosophy deals in the abstract and the universal, but not in the particular. History deals only in the particular, not with general principles. Poetry deals with both, illustrating universal principles with particular examples or embodiments of those principles:
Now doth the peerless poet perform both: for whatsoever the philosopher saith should be done, he giveth a perfect picture of it in someone by whom he presupposeth it was done; so as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example.
Another advantage poetry has over philosophy is greater clarity:
the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught. But the poet is the food for the tenderest stomachs, the poet is indeed the right popular philosopher.
Essentially, poetry shows history more brilliantly than history, and explains philosophy more cogently than philosophy. — Philip Sidney

Because we're too hard to kill. We're invista ... investra ... invinta ... " "Invincible?" "That's it!" With a reassuring pat on my arm. "Invincible. — Rick Yancey

Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible. — Martha N. Beck

You start off as Mr X, who happens to be an engineer, and sooner or later you're just an engineer who happens to be called Mr X. — Antal Szerb

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing. — Marcello Mastroianni