Windowsill Shelf Quotes & Sayings

Screens tell you not what is really out there but what the government or Facebook thinks you should see. If you searched for something and it wasn't there, how would you know it really was? To paraphrase an old philosophical question, if a tree falls on the Internet and no search engine indexes it, does it make any noise? As we live our lives increasingly mediated through screens, when it doesn't exist online, it doesn't exist. — Marc Goodman

From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist," he said. "I have to be. — Elie Wiesel

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love. — Timothy Keller

I am going to carry my bed into New York City tonight
complete with dangling sheets and ripped blankets;
I am going to push it across three dark highways
or coast along under 600,000 faint stars. — Gerald Stern

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. — Hippocrates

Our nation today needs men and women who are bold enough to play on the field and passionate to change the status quo ! — Osunsakin Adewale

With no sums to keep his conscience at bay, the black book loomed large, creeping into his line of sight.
He scanned the room for something else to do. The harness still needed work. And he'd been meaning to fix that rickety shelf since last month. The pipe on his potbellied stove was dented. The windowsill needed dusting.
Dusting?
J.T. braced his arms on the desk and pressed his forehead into the heels of his hands. — Karen Witemeyer