Astonishingly Examples Quotes

#1. There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

Mark Twain

#2. Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became "human" enough, the first human soul slipped into it. I

Garth Stein

#3. If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.

Freeman Dyson

#4. The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#5. The first thing you learn is how to be alone. You learn, or suffer. It is an easy lesson. You suffer more when people are around. People make you feel alone. And loneliness is a quiet wound.

Marjorie M. Liu

#6. The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind.

James Pierpont

#7. Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

Ellsworth Huntington

#8. Sometimes love tries to do too much.

Charles Todd

#9. Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

Jeffrey Lewis

#10. Eighty percent of all cultures are the same, it is the 20% that make a culture unique and slam dunks the brand promise to the customer.

Curt Coffman