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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9781072 | But, as Einstein once said, "For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent."5" | Brian Greene | ||
| 3b4bc3a | I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will find all manner of dishonor. Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly. | writing | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 42019c3 | But time can be a greedy thing- sometimes it steals all the details for itself | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 114e010 | Don't you think you're a little old now to be quoting ?' I ask, raising an eyebrow at him. 'You read ,' Will protests. 'Everyone reads ,' I exclaim. 'It's an institution. Besides, it's not really a kids book, it's a metaphor for the world at large. It's almost philosophical in its way. | mel will | Jennifer Gilby Roberts | |
| 459622c | Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 28c18f0 | Will and George were doing well in business, and Joe was writing letters home in rhymed verse and making as smart an attack on all the accepted verities as was healthful. Samuel wrote to Joe, sayings, "I would be disappointed if you had not become an atheist, and I read pleasantly that you have, in your age and wisdom, accepted agnosticism the way you'd take a cookie on a full stomach. But I would ask you with all my understanding heart no.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 2d82061 | I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down. | heroic ups-and-downs knights | John Steinbeck | |
| a9ff871 | Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit the name. But you can be sure of this- whenever a human has a nickname it is a proof that the name given him was wrong. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 496b679 | And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder. | violence | John Steinbeck | |
| 2922e5f | Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom. | John Steinbeck | ||
| b3caeb6 | I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3bdb76e | The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 4db3a6c | At the roadsides I never had a really good dinner or a really bad breakfast. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3fef276 | All we got is the family unbroke. | John Steinbeck | ||
| f8846c1 | In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. | literature | John Steinbeck | |
| 6293cfb | One day Samuel strained his back lifting a bale of hay, and it hurt his feelings more than his back, for he could not imagine a life in which Sam Hamilton was not privileged to lift a bale of hay. He felt insulted by his back, almost as he would have been if one of his children had been dishonest | John Steinbeck | ||
| 6ec4518 | With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us. | John Steinbeck | ||
| f83a18d | Thou knowest not what bitches women are," Danny said wisely. "I do know," said Pilon. "Thou knowest not." "I do know." "Liar." | John Steinbeck | ||
| fcb8756 | The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul? | dark my-kind-of-book twisted | John Steinbeck | |
| 5143cf0 | I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 6f013b4 | Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does. | time mind memory | John Steinbeck | |
| 9d363a8 | He did not know, and perhaps this doctor did. And he could not take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge. He was trapped as his people were always trapped, and would be until, as he had said, they could be sure that the things in the books ere really in the books. | John Steinbeck | ||
| b178746 | He smiled at her as a man might smile at a memory. | John Steinbeck | ||
| c7f6b38 | Abra was ready ere I called her name. And though I called another, Abra came. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 6ea8742 | Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 816bfa9 | It's a thing to see when a boy comes home. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1a4478d | They could get it," Doc said. "They could ruin their lives and get money. Mack has qualities of genius. They're all very clever if they want something. They just know the nature of things too well to be caught in wanting." | John Steinbeck | ||
| 004162c | The Word is symbol of delight which sucks up men and scenes, trees, plants, factories, and Pekinese. Then the Thing becomes the Word and the back to Thing again, but warped and woven into a fantastic pattern. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 2d990c8 | The remarkable thing," said Doc, "isn't that they put their tails up in the air--the really incredibly remarkable thing is that we find it remarkable. We can only use ourselves as yardsticks. If we did something as inexplicable and strange we'd probably be praying--so maybe they're praying." | John Steinbeck | ||
| ce4fd4a | And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all over. But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist--or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it. | rejection trauma | John Steinbeck | |
| ba1d2c9 | Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 4c094dc | At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You can't make a race horse of a pig." Samuel replies, "No, but you can make a very fast pig." | John Steinbeck | ||
| 7aba666 | For all the self-improvement books I had read, I still wasn't above shallow validation-seeking. None of us were. That's why we were in the game. Sex wasn't about getting our rocks off; it was about being accepted. | Neil Strauss | ||
| fc3f2c8 | There comes a time in a man's life when he looks around and realizes he's made a mess of everything. He's dug a hole for himself so deep that not only can't he get out, but he doesn't even know which way is up anymore. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 2c1114c | How you do anything is how you do everything, | Neil Strauss | ||
| 9ea2d4b | Loneliness is holding in a joke because you have no one to share it with. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 352bd86 | Angela Wexler, | Ellen Raskin | ||
| 293e192 | After this, I couldn't hear their voices any longer; for in my ears I heard a sound like a bird's wings flapping in panic. Perhaps it was my heart, I don't know. But if you've ever seen a bird trapped inside the great hall of a temple, looking for some way out, well, that was how my mind was reacting. It had never occurred to me that my mother wouldn't simply go on being sick. I won't say I'd never wondered what might happen if she should d.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| c8a2981 | And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a cloud carried upon it. | love | Arthur Golden | |
| d18258c | It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream" "I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up" "Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might.. | life stream | Arthur Golden | |
| 820e26a | Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang. | Nora Roberts | ||
| aedf267 | Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions. | suffering living shannon nora-roberts | Nora Roberts | |
| 6446238 | Falling in love has nothing to do with time. It can take a year, or an instant. It happens when its ready to happen. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 84e6b81 | Told you not to tell her." "That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship." "Build a relationship." Ryder snorted as he sent the drill whirling again. "You've been reading again." "Blow me." | Nora Roberts |