Women S Biograpy Quotes & Sayings

One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs. — Kate Atkinson

The compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves. — Lorrie Moore

Yanking at my leg, straining every muscle, my customized Gray Ghost rebuilt as a chopper sparks and squeals.
My boot catches and I'm flipped. Sliding down E-70 Highway on leather, my gloves scrubbed by the tarmac. — Poppet

You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary and believe things that are false. — Paul Graham

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way. — Ricky Skaggs

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being. — Edmund Husserl

Today they are teaching the subject of art as a frill in school, partly due to intellectual preciousness that has crept into art departments with the making of the History of Art. Intellectualising places art on a pedestal only for the few, causing New Zealanders to revert to the invented snobbery that tends to ignore anything arty as exotic, unattainable, not wholesome. — Theresa Sjoquist

I'm only seventeen. Sometimes that feels too young to have lived the life I have. Sometimes I look around at my surroundings and think, I don't belong here — Erin Watt

I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter. — Piper Perabo

Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her. — Henry Ward Beecher

I remember when my daughter was just learning her letters. She was playing in her room and came downstairs to ask me, "Momma, what does C-H-I-N-A spell?" "China," I told her (she knew what the word meant - she had friends from there). "So," she asked next, "why is it written on everything? — Annie Leonard