Booknotes Brian Quotes

#1. Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

Bella Abzug

#2. Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism.

Rob Brezsny

#3. But the simple fact of bearing a responsibility can be something that gives meaning to life.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#4. The Beast looked faintly alarmed.
"Don't worry, I never stab anyone twice in the same hour. I don't want them to think I'm unoriginal."
"I confess, I am more afraid you will clip me bald."
"Vain Beast.

T. Kingfisher

#5. Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections.

Ryan Lilly

#6. Do u ever think,
when ur all alone,
all tht we could be,
where this can go,
am i crazy,
or falling in love?

David Archuleta

#7. Writing a book is not a crime.

Alexander Ahndoril

#8. My 'third leg' is longer than my two other legs and that's why I wear such big baggy pants.

Tom Kaulitz

#9. Cliches, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.

Hannah Arendt

#10. God has really blessed me with the ability to put me ahead of the class.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#11. Knowing how to tinker with a broken piece of prose until it hums is a source of contentment known by all who have mastered a worthy craft.

Carol Fisher Saller

#12. In the intervals between battles, the Warrior rests.

Paulo Coelho

#13. He's one of those people, thought Howard, who looks like one quality very much, and the quality in this case is 'noble'. Howard didn't much trust people like that, so full of one quality, like books with insistent covers.

Zadie Smith