Zone Quotes
721 quotes by 603 authors
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's…
— Banksy
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So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified…
— Thomas Pynchon
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Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.
— Jack Canfield
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It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and…
— Anne Lamott
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From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged…
— Ann Coulter
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Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?" "In the open…
— Sarah Dessen
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…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the…
— Michael Ondaatje
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To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place…
— Bell Hooks
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Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water. We're…
— Janet Evanovich
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And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was…
— Marcel Proust
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Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham…
— Randy Pausch
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Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be…
— Naomi Klein
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the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being…
— Katie Couric
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Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is…
— David James Duncan
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Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no…
— Roland Barthes
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Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones,…
— Steve Martin
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for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized
— Rod Serling
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Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When…
— Seth Godin
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