Esmate Quotes

#1. Your first ducknapping is never easy.

Edmond Manning

#2. I studied the shape of my friend's hands, and how he clasped them. I could smell his skin and hair in the cold air of the church, and stood aching, my face a devout mask stretched over a rotten soul. On

Maria McCann

#3. This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being.

Keith L. Moore

#4. People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

John Shirley

#5. Poetry searches for music amidst the tumult of the dictionary.

Boris Pasternak

#6. In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

Stephen King

#7. Here is how to sit through small openings of your father's first art films, surrounded by surly foreign cigarette smoke and conversations so pretentious you literally cannot believe them, you're sure you have misheard them.

David Foster Wallace

#8. Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. I have a wonderful assistant. I tell her I need four amputees and a midget, and she finds them.

Nikki Sixx

#10. Maddie breathed in deep, inhaling the scent of breakfast and dish soap, clean laundry and wood floors, sunshine and a room filled with love. It smelled like home.

Crissi Langwell

#11. Even the wisest among you is only a confusion and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I ask you to become phantoms or plants?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

Parker J. Palmer

#13. That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.

Halldor Laxness

#14. It is very difficult to evolve by altering the deep fabric of life; any change there is likely to be lethal. But fundamental change can be accomplished by the addition of new systems on top of old ones.

Carl Sagan

#15. My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.

Andrei Tarkovsky