Cloggers Quotes

#1. I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage.

Nicholson Baker

#2. He found, moreover, that the younger and more ignorant his pupils were, the more pleasure he took in teaching.

Hermann Hesse

#3. I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

Henry Rollins

#4. The growth of writing and literacy strikes me as the best candidate for an exogenous change that helped set off the Humanitarian Revolution.

Steven Pinker

#5. Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as 'too long.

Wes Locher

#6. (For the uninitiated, "ectoplasm" is a ghostly kind of stuff that writers like Dennett are constantly accusing critics of materialism of believing in. It plays the same sort of straw-man role in his writings on the mind that Paley does in Dawkins's writings on religion.)

Edward Feser

#7. When everyone you know is on the verge of drowning, you don't stop to tell the person next to you that you don't like swimming.

Veronica Rossi

#8. If you are not satisfied with what is coming to you, start to work and change your mental attitude and mental states, and you will see a change gradually setting in.

William Walker Atkinson

#9. Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.

Ralph Nader

#10. Without the fear of God it is impossible to say 'No' to temptations and evil.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Whenever I meet someone who's talented, I always want to write something for them!

Jeff Garlin

#12. Rejection is the natural course of things.

Eric Walters

#13. Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

Lawrence Hill

#14. So gut tells you "How do I feel about this right now?" It doesn't tell me how I feel about it tomorrow or even a few minutes from now. It just tells me how I'm feeling right now.

Sheena Iyengar