Daniele Watts Quotes

#1. for only the eye of sincerity can see. The eye of curiosity has the cataract of doubt, and is blind already.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#2. [The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science.

Edward Gibbon

#3. Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

Mason Cooley

#4. Intense desire not only creates its own possibilities, but its own talents. Don't be afraid to do something just because it's impossible.

Kobi Yamada

#5. The waitress, a plain brunette disguised as a pretty brunette...

Gillian Flynn

#6. Had Dr. Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book like this.--reviewing Nicholson Baker's House of Holes

Tom Bissell

#7. There is something in a tropical forest akin to the ocean in its effect on the mind. Man feels so completely his insignificance there and the vastness of nature.

Henry Walter Bates

#8. An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.

David Greenberg

#9. You shouldn't never regret something that made you smile

Bei Maejor

#10. Talking on a landline with no interruptions used to be an everyday thing. Now it's exotic; the jewel in the crown.

Sherry Turkle

#11. Storytelling keeps life going.

A.D. Posey