91k House Quotes

#1. To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.

Edvard Munch

#2. Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.

Micere Githae Mugo

#3. You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.

John Wesley

#4. A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

Joyce Carol Oates

#5. She thought: When we are two, they do not notice us. They think us a match. What wisdom does a mob have? It is a hydra, an organism, stupid or dangerous in much of its behaviour, but could it have, in spite of this, a proper judgement about which of its component parts fit best together?

Peter Carey

#6. Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.

Joel Salatin

#7. I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.

Maria Callas

#8. The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

Pierre De Coubertin

#9. As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.

Sam Altman

#10. In order to keep up with the criminals and to protect our national security, the solution is clear: we need legislation to ensure that telephone companies and other carriers provide law enforcement with access to this new technology.

Louis J. Freeh

#11. You may wonder why I haven't killed myself because living with madness or watching it flood the heart of someone we love is unbearable.

Simon Van Booy

#12. Another foreign-policy triumph for Reagan was his 1984 visit to China, where he met for more than three hours with Mao Zedong before realizing that Mao was dead.

Dave Barry

#13. If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists only where mind is not; where the internal dialogue is gone.

Rajneesh

#14. Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.

Carl Bernstein