30127 Quotes

#1. For some reason, her words snapped the zip-tie that had been holding his secret. She'd just given him permission to be flawed.

Tammy L. Gray

#2. It's not a boys" club," I said. Not anymore. "It's one of the most powerful secret societies in the world." I should know. I'm a member.

Diana Peterfreund

#3. I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

George Balanchine

#4. It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

Aimee Bender

#5. Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.

Walter Kaufmann

#6. Everything has come into being for a purpose - a horse, say, a vine. Does this surprise you? Even the sun will say, 'I came into being for a purpose': likewise the other gods. For what purpose, then, were you created? For your pleasure? Just see whether this idea can be entertained.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. Does a chicken have lips?

John Sandford

#8. People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

Paddy Ashdown

#9. Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.

Thomas Hardy

#10. If only Heaven will give me just another ten years ... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

Hokusai

#11. For millennia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his existence as a living being in question

Michel Foucault

#12. The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.

Claude Bernard

#13. I write laps," she said. "Every morning, just to stay loose. Have

Rainbow Rowell

#14. People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

Bob Nelson