Chapbook Press Quotes

#1. Honest men make unconvincing liars,' I lied convincingly.

Charles Beaumont

#2. The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. We had found a pocket of quiet, where all the ghosts in our minds had gone to sleep, and we were the only two people awake.

Leylah Attar

#4. I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.

Blake Shelton

#5. I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.

Guy Pearce

#6. To me thinking outside the box means; crossing disciplines and pulling in expertise and perspective from outside of the standard boundaries.

Dror Benshetrit

#7. Because we tend to equate intelligence with language
particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions
it is natural to conclude that animals are, on the whole, a lot less intelligent than we are.

Linda Bender

#8. The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.

Eric Kandel

#9. I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

Dorothy Fields

#10. Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.

Marquis De Lafayette