Web Quotes
895 quotes by 656 authors
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When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of…
— Michael Pollan
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The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my…
— Shirley Jackson
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The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did…
— Chief Seattle
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A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed…
— Francoise Sagan
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We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our…
— Julia Cameron
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For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network…
— Orson Scott Card
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A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else…
— Donna Tartt
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On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk…
— John Connolly
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I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web,…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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His gaze was a lot steadier than her heartbeat. “She’s the reason for those whispered phone calls I used to overhear, isn’t she?†“Don’t be…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process…
— Jaron Lanier
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I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil…
— James Thurber
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What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to…
— Mitch Albom
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It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in…
— Greg Graffin
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We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of…
— Sarah Addison Allen
Who Wrote These Web Quotes
656 authors contributed a total of 895 Web Quotes, led by these top contributors: