Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to…

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

— Tobias Wolff

It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do…

— May Sarton

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

— Mary Catherwood

The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and…

— Tim Berners-Lee

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I work in lockstep, hand in glove, with the prime minister on these issues, and as we are supportive to the Eurozone so they…

— Nick Clegg

I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one…

— Susan Sontag

After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make…

— Jeremy Silman

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and…

— Elizabeth Janeway

With stillness comes the benediction of peace”. “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a…

— Eckhart Tolle

On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions…

— C. D. Innes

I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become…

— Jim James

If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented,…

— Joel Salatin

We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the…

— Christoffer Boe

Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley…

— Mark Steyn