Illusions Quote by Neil Peart

“discovery starts with anomalies.”

— Richard H. Thaler

Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest…

— Gena Showalter

Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value - perhaps deeper…

— Stephen Kinzer

“•The next forty-eight hours passed tediously and painfully, like a jagged kidney stone.”

— Gregg Hurwitz

I was just painfully shy. I couldn't talk to anyone. Going up in front of class, I would have to mentally prepare myself to…

— Mikey Madison

You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.

— Henry Rollins

“The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could, since it was something that would lead nowhere, painfully.”

— Mark Helprin

I'm painfully middle class.

— Valerie Harper

Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera…

— Cynthia Ozick

Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we…

— Haruki Murakami

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have…

— Adam Hochschild

“When I read, the words on the page replace the voice in my head and I cease, for a little while, to be me,…

— David Gordon