Berenices Salon Quotes

#1. As the economy has become more specialized and the occupational division of labor has deepened, the Creative Class has increasingly outsourced functions that were previously provided within the family to the Service Class.

Richard Florida

#2. The most terrifying part was that the evil dwelling in those eyes could've gone unnoticed by many.

Sidney Knight

#3. Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

Alfred North Whitehead

#4. Henry keeps dealing. When all the cards have been separated, I pick up my stack and shuffle my cards again. Then I look up into Henry's eyes, and he's staring back at me, at my tears, and I see all these tiny wrinkles around his eyes-sadness wrinkles. He frowns, biting his lip.

Miranda Kenneally

#5. It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

Jonathan Lethem

#6. A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.

John Stuart Mill

#7. She's just this character to you. Both of us are! And we always have been. You don't know what goes on in our heads. You don't know where we come from or who we are . . . Can you even tell the difference anymore between what you've written about her and who she really, truly is?

Kristopher Jansma

#8. Think of anything, of cowboys, of movies, of detective stories, of anybody who goes anywhere or stays at home and is an American and you will realize that it is something strictly American to conceive a space that is filled with moving.

Gertrude Stein

#9. The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that's it's more important.

Ian MacKaye

#10. Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.

John Templeton

#11. I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

Mark Oliphant

#12. each day be open to the world, be ready to think; each day be ready not to accept what is said just because it is said, be predisposed to reread what is read; each day investigate, question, and doubt.

Paulo Freire

#13. The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

Ben Harper