Contravening Facts Quotes

#1. You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

Branford Marsalis

#2. AS WITH ALL TRULY wild things, care is necessary in approaching them. Stealth is useless. Wild things recognize stealth for what it is, a lie and a trap. While wild things might play games of stealth, and in doing so may even occasionally fall prey to stealth, they are never truly caught by it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, everything had seemed so boring, so pointless. But now, the stories Nellie told struck him as the most important thing in the world and he listened as if his life depended on what she said. (page 69)

Kate DiCamillo

#4. Child of lightning, beware the earth,
The giants' revenge the seven shall birth,
The forge and the dove shall break the cage,
And death unleash through Hera's rage.

Rick Riordan

#5. Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.

Iimani David

#6. Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be.

Dan Pearce

#7. She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

Kristin Cashore

#8. If we have a biometric exit-entry system, we know on the day after six months has exceeded his visa.And with that exit- entry system, we can then send ICE, the law enforcement agents that exist, to go and get John and say, OK, you're here illegally now.

Ted Cruz

#9. No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human.

Jack Nicholson

#10. His mouth tilted and his eyes twinkled. I knew it. One look into yer eyes and I could fall at yet feet.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#11. The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.

Jon Stewart

#12. The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?

Ken Mehlman