Zidek Quotes & Sayings

And then they walk away together, out of the allotted grooves of their afternoons and into the thickening shadows of evening, into the dim, liminal place where on path is taken, and another missed. — Laura Barnett

Suppose we took a thousand negatives ...
combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture. — Berenice Abbott

You have blundered into an adult existence you don't understand, and you can't tell whether you planned it this way or whether you screwed up big-time, though it's too late either way. — Rob Sheffield

Humor plays close to the big hot fire which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the heat. — E.B. White

It's very important my parent's don't think I'm starting to fall in love with people, because then they might notice that I'm growing up, and I'm kind of trying to keep it a secret. I think it will cause an incident — Caitlin Moran

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces. — Octavia E. Butler

I know it's not always easy making the smart choice. Giving up things you want to do in exchange for prudence. Or to protect people you care about from worry and fear. But it is something a wise young lady does...I'm verra proud of you for making the wise choice, Isobel." Alexander Lochlannach from Susana and the Scot p. 205 by Sabrina York — Sabrina York

His was the kind of beauty for which you would pay the price of a lifetime of sorrow and all the varieties of rage. Eventually, you would have to go to church to get rid of him. — Charles Baxter

I never had any ambitions to be a novelist. — Haruki Murakami

A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. — Noah Wyle

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals. — John Quincy Adams

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me. — Amy Hempel

Do not look for a secret passage in nature because nature is already the secret passage itself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them. — Dolly Parton