80 quotes found
“your failure to acknowledge the existence of God makes you worst than the devil.”
“Some say that you should turn your face from the light of the moon. They say it makes you mad.I turn my face towards it and I laugh.Make me mad, I whisper. Go on, make Mina mad.I laugh again.Some p...”
“This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.”
“The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53”
“I went out into the corridor. I asked a nurse if she knew where the people with arthritis went. She said lots of them went to Ward 34 on the top floor. She said she thought that was a silly place t...”
“This was one of those mid-thirties moments when you take a look at the stale, half-chewed bagel your life has become and kiss jealousy on its smokey mouth.”
“In the end she just said..... All I did was to run away for a few minutes! All I wanted was to be free!”
“'Bond' was like Christmas: can't wait for it to come around. Being in the films brought me to a global audience, and I have had the opportunity to meet incredible people.”
“All men are born equally free.”
“Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.”
“Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately ne...”
“Good things make choosing difficult.Bad things leave no choice”
“She told us about the goddess called Persephone, who was forced to spend half a year in the darkness deep underground. Winter happened when she was trapped inside the earth. The days shrank, they b...”
“The Internet is what you make of it, obviously . . . But the Internet has also been a great aggregator of anxiety and an enabler of our worst tendencies. It has allowed us to trumpet our own opinio...”
“In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from one context to the next . . .”
“Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.”
“What is the purpose of living if there are no perils to be encountered and overcome?”
“I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be ...”
“Se puede vivir sin leer, es cierto: pero también se puede vivir sin amar: el argumento hace aguas como una balsa capitaneada por ratas... Sólo quien ha estado enamorado sabe lo que el amor regala y...”
“Narration, after all, isn’t just a literary function. It represents the human capacity to tell stories in such a manner that they yield meaning. Television replaced this concerted quest for meaning...”
