Zomburbia Quotes & Sayings

the sun is within me and so is the moon — Kabir

I've dreamt him a box of EpiPens. I dream cures for stings all the time. I carry one. I put them in the Pig. I have them all over Monmouth."
"Do they work?"
"I don't know. And there's no way to find out before it actually happens. There won't be a rematch. — Maggie Stiefvater

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them. — Margo Lanagan

I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't ... not anymore ... consider fame and fortune my career. I'm not a star. I'm an actor. So in a way, what I want to do as an actor, I would consider good for my career. Does that make sense? — Christoph Waltz

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it. — Richard Pryor

I do not live in the present ... I AM the present. — Paul Palnik

Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities. — James Comey

You were you,
and I was I;
we were two
before our time.
I was yours
before I knew,
and you have always
been mine too. — Lang Leav

In the spring of 2009, I was the 217th person ever to be diagnosed with anti-NMDA-receptor autoimmune encephalitis. Just a year later, that figure had doubled. Now the number is in the thousands. Yet Dr. Bailey, considered one of the best neurologists in the country, had never heard of it. When we live in a time when the rate of misdiagnoses has shown no improvement since the 1930s, the lesson here is that it's important to always get a second opinion.
While he may be an excellent doctor in many respects, Dr. Bailey is also, in some ways, a perfect example of what is wrong with medicine. I was just a number to him (and if he saw thirty-five patients a day, as he told me, that means I was one of a very large number). He is a by-product of a defective system that forces neurologists to spend five minutes with X number of patients a day to maintain their bottom line. It's a bad system. Dr. Bailey is not the exception to the rule. He is the rule. — Susannah Cahalan

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early. — Tibor Fischer

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning ... and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God" (cf. 5:18). On the surface, these verses appear to say that true Christians should not sin at all. — Anonymous

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. — Harold Rosenberg

Attitude determines your altitude, if you have a bad attitude, even if you are way up there, you will come crashing down, and if you are still trying to take off, a bad attitude, will keep you on the ground, revving your engines but going nowhere. — Strive Masiyiwa

If you haven't read Zomburbia, you haven't read about zombies. This is a new take and it is scary, freaky, and original. Gallardo resets the zombie bar and it's sky-high. Get this book! — Nancy Holder