Central Quotes

1135 Central quotes by 894 unique authors

On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies… — Jhumpa Lahiri
We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to… — Stephen Batchelor
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is… — Thomas Pynchon
Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska. — Stephen King
...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it. — Paulo Coelho
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree… — Marshall McLuhan
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think… — Marisha Pessl
The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a… — Alan Moore
I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it… — J D Salinger
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing… — Ray Bradbury
Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of… — Patricia Hill Collins
The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was full of a… — Michael Cunningham
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American… — Harry S. Truman
If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid… — Quentin Crisp
We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the… — Julio Cortazar
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know it was critically… — Meg Cabot
Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were… — Milan Kundera
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy… — Barack Obama
After a moment, Wrath turned to John. "This is Lassiter, the fallen angel. One of the last times he was here on earth, there was… — J R Ward
All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll… — Annie Dillard
Butch repositioned the Sox cap, and as his wrist passed by his nose, he got another whiff of himself. "Ah, V. . . listen, there… — J R Ward
I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound… — Rick Riordan

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