Chamber John Grisham Quotes

#1. Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Ernst Mach

#2. The Admiral's using us," he says to the kids around him. "Don't you see that?"
Most of the kids just shrug, but Hayden's there, and he never misses an opportunity to add his peculiar wisdom to a situation.
"I'd rather be used whole than in pieces," Hayden says.

Neal Shusterman

#3. [Flaubert] didn't just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.

Julian Barnes

#4. People ask me all the time, "What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett?" It's like, "No, I'm trying to do me." Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.

Charlie Kaufman

#5. Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#6. Because the world itself is now unfathomable, the only complexities that really count are small moments of domestic life that combine to trigger deep emotion. There is no longer any way of being poor in any interesting way in major cities like Manhattan

Chris Kraus

#7. It's dangerous when music gets cornered by anything.

Justin Vernon

#8. [...] a white magician is just a black magician with a good housekeeper.

Terry Pratchett

#9. There are some who have the ability to capture your heart and dance with your soul. Let them. Please, just let them.

Truth Devour