Zimochek Quotes & Sayings

Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939 — Jimmy Doolittle

But it's not true. I forget things - I know that - but I'm not mad. Not yet. And I'm sick of being treated as if I am. I'm tired of the sympathetic smiles and the little pats people give you when you get things confused, and I'm bloody fed up with everyone deferring to Helen rather than listening to what I have to say. — Emma Healey

The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe's history. — Camille Flammarion

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. — Henry David Thoreau

All that befell: in her joys, her pipe in the evening, her man at night, the children she suckled, and guided on their first short steps; and in her tribulations, death, and parting, and the lash, she did not forget that deliverance was promised and would surely come. She had only to endure and trust in God. — James Baldwin

My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country. — Faye Wattleton

How are we going to say goodbye?" Will asks in a sleepfurry voice.
He means now. I mean forever. "I don't want to."
His sleepy smile slaughters me. If I was standing, it would have sent me to my knees. — Megan Hart

Squinting she jutted a finger at the doctor. "You did use your mind control on me. When we met. You ... brainwashed me just like the queen. You made me trust you"
"Be fair. You were attacking me with a wrench. — Marissa Meyer

You can spend all day trying to think of some universal truth to set down on paper, and some poets try that. Shakespeare knew that it's much easier to string together some words beginning with the same letter. — Mark Forsyth

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. — Scott Alexander

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out. — Ariel Dorfman