Bartleby Isolation Quotes

#1. I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune. - Author: Herbert Spencer

#2. Don't be absurd!" Jerome said. "Ruthless kidnapping villains aren't in! - Author: Lemony Snicket

#3. Long has black powder been in the hands of dwarves alone.
Alas, winds ever change and nothing remains the same forever.

Lord Arrlo Salkeld - Author: J.P. Ashman

#4. Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery. Those trapped in the bland middle region of respectability are lost without ever realizing it. - Author: John O'Donohue

#5. Remind me, Lord, of why I create things and that YOU ... you are the best of artists, put these gifts in me to share with the world. - Author: Jennifer Allwood

#6. Much remains to be learned about stratospheric chemistry - and, in more general terms, about the physics and chemistry of the global atmosphere. - Author: Mario J. Molina

#7. At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom. - Author: David Novak

#8. Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers. - Author: Guillaume Apollinaire

#9. Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins. - Author: Germaine Greer

#10. We never had it so good: Every person alive today derives great benefit from comforts and pleasures that were not available in the past. All of the latest technological advances serve us to a remarkable degree. For all this we should be full of appreciation and gratitude. - Author: Zelig Pliskin

#11. We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like. - Author: Barack Obama