Factotum Book Quotes

#1. In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child.

Randy Alcorn

#2. Beer or three. My nerves were still singing from the morning.

Gillian Flynn

#3. I climb up next to her and watch the river and all the things that float and swim along it - birds, debris from the mountains.

Ally Condie

#4. I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

Mary Leakey

#5. Your words are hurting me very badly; I can feel it inside my bones.

M.F. Moonzajer

#6. Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

Jacqueline Carey

#7. Developing a kind heart, a feeling of closeness for all beings, does not require following a conventional religious practice. It is not only for those who believe in religion. It is for everyone, regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation.

Dalai Lama XIV

#8. Bitterness hardly cares what food it eats.

Leslie Ford

#9. Bliss begins with the breath. We breathe in, and accept all that is new. We breathe out, and release all that has passed.

Sara Wiseman

#10. The rumble of a subway train,
the rattle of the taxis.

Al Dubin

#11. Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

Alison Gopnik

#12. Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

Don Marquis

#13. I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

Darren Criss