Contextualization Apush Quotes

#1. Why haven't you asked me how I do my tricks?" Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. "Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.

Erin Morgenstern

#2. It was as if they could read each other's minds. No, not minds: each other's mindlessness.

Margaret Atwood

#3. That night I couldn't sleep at all. Mozart had shown me immortal light, and I now felt as though I were under direct orders from Mozart. He expressed his sadness not only with the minor scale but with the major scale as well.

Lydia Davis

#4. Hope is a talent like any other.

Storm Jameson

#5. Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

Al-Ghazali

#6. I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

Jane Campion

#7. I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion.

Mallory Ortberg

#8. I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments.

Samuel Beckett

#9. I have created myself a soul, big as the world, that leaks all over, and I have to keep calling for the plumber.

Anais Nin

#10. Um," Sean began. "Who is that? What is her current relationship status? Why does she seem to like you?"
"Her name is Sammy," Xander laughed. "She's a new student. We met in class."
"I want one.

Jon Messenger

#11. The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Friedrich Schiller

#12. The five elements are energies, not things. In Hinduism, they are known as the five tattvas. Psychic people can see them and their geometric forms.

Stefan Emunds

#13. The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.

Henry David Thoreau