"Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another."
Desiderius Erasmus
"I think the rules where different there. It was all about science, but the science was magical. It didn't care about whether something could be done. It was about whether it should be done, and the answer was always, always yes."
Seanan McGuire
"When women agree with me I always do the other thing."
Charles Bukowski
"Find your truth, live your truth."
J. T. OWENS
"We can never know more than the mind can assimilate and process, nor can we discuss any aspect of the world for which there is no language."
Padma Viswanathan
"Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away."
Eileen Myles
"I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore."
Annie Baker
"I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like saying I'm a recording device, I start and I go. I had a real connection to ongoing, language production in real time."
Constance Dejong
"We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves."
Malcolm Gladwell
"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."
Henry David Thoreau
"It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you."
Fernando Lachica
"John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism.Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health."
Paul Cornell
"If she's really psychic,' Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, 'why does she need a doorbell?"
Joan Bauer
"The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive."
George Santayana
"A cat is friendly in a hollow sort of way, like the way a prostitute is friendly."
Noch keine Kommentare
Sei der Erste, der seine Gedanken teilt!