Break Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“...I felt instinctively that toilets - as also telephones - happened to be for reasons unfathomable, the points where my destiny was liable to…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“As for your vision, & what is or isn't written, Stay faithful until it's fateful.”

— Suhaib Rumi

Science will...produce the data..., but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need...most of all the brains of poets, [and] also…

— Lewis Thomas

“I lost the name my mom had so carefully chosen and became a medical term.”

— Mariana Zapata

“Where’s the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly. I’ve seen too many estates…

— Donna Tartt

“In a certain light and from a carefully chosen angle, Magrat was not unattractive.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Even when you have been somewhat enlightened by what you have read, you are called upon to continue the serach for significance.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

“It should be pointed out that certain correlative concepts retain their meaning, and possibly their foremost significance, if they are referred exclusively to man.…

— Walter Benjamin

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

— Benjamin Cardozo

This is of monumental significance. The gift has been given - what we make of it is up to us. Unless we listen to…

— F. Burton Howard

The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and…

— Alicia Ostriker