Burian Paintings Quotes

#1. Primo Levi once said, "I write in order to rejoin the community of mankind." Reading is a private act, but it joins us across continents and time.

Azar Nafisi

#2. The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper.

John Hull

#3. Eyes open, then, I say, tapping the skin between my eyebrows. I don't really need her eyes to be on mine, but I feel better when they are.

Veronica Roth

#4. When you're 6 or 7, your father becomes this wonderful presence in your life. I really responded to my father. And then, the very moment I realized that I loved him unconditionally, that life was going to be great just because he was in it, he was gone.

Tim Allen

#5. On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the writer finds himself in lifelong struggle to join the two without sullying or smearing the clarities of either.

Gilbert Sorrentino

#6. A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.

Deacon Jones

#7. What it must feel like to lie back with cut wrists in a warm bath, a voluptuous dwindling feeling.

Michael Cisco

#8. so-help-me-black-Jesus, I will smite that hairy little shit and make a coat out of his fur. Ya feel me?" The

Laura Thalassa

#9. Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Ben Okri

#10. People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.

Chad Hurley