Wrde Phoenix Quotes & Sayings

At times, Melete continued, it had seemed to her that this fact was what had created this behavior. Her sense of reality, in other words, had created something outside itself that mocked and hated her. But as I say, she said, those thoughts belong to the world of religious sensibility, which has become in our times the language of neurosis. — Rachel Cusk

I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up. — Meg Cabot

The most important step we can take toward Mars is to make significant progress on Earth. Even modest improvements in the social, economic, and political problems that our global civilization now faces could release enormous resources, both material and human, for other goals. — Carl Sagan

To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way. — Jonathan Franzen

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen. — Lara Stone

Cunningly, Odin tricks fools into war, a pleasure to him. — F.T. McKinstry

We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in. — Adam Hamilton

There was no money economy in Egypt, and all exchange of goods was carried out by barter. Each citizen paid a tax in kind of everyt5hing he produced, and the wealth of the pharaoh thus consisted of the grain, livestock, and other goods that he took as taxes. He also received metals and other goods as tribute or in trade from abroad. — Norman F. Cantor

I met a photographer who agreed to give me a few lessons; in exchange, I had to pose naked for him. — Sophie Calle

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse. — Bruce Cockburn

There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't. — Idris Elba