I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In these days of high-tech video games, it's remarkable that kids once got incredibly thrilled while pushing little metal racing cars around… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
[I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
He pretended it was the only thing that kept him from it. But, far back in his mind, he wondered if he… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay… — Thomas Ken Copy Share Image
Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
As bank customers, we tend to believe that we can have both perfect security for our money, drawing on it whenever we… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to be moved by the verve, courage and elan with Churchill attacked his last and ultimately invincible enemy,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls. Not just one or two but endless universes can… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We’re staying together,” he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.” Only then did she understand what would happen. A… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early '90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said;… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless.… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
Rowdy, hopped-up college kids pass us in an endless, noisy blur like they're being mass produced or squeezed out of a tube… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Since zombies are not fully dead, they upset the essential balance of nature: no animals eat zombies, apparently, and zombies do not… — Kim Paffenroth Copy Share Image
Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in… — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free… — Elizabeth Holtzman Copy Share Image