Federalist 74 Quotes

#1. Character contributes to beauty.

Jacqueline Bisset

#2. Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'

Liz Williams

#3. You can't stay away from the theater too long.

Tim Curry

#4. Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.

John Burnside

#5. When I ask Plutarch about his absence, he just shakes his head and says, "He couldnt face it."
"Haymitch? Not able to face something? Wanted a day off, more likely," I say.
"I think his actual words were 'I couldn't face it without a bottle,'" says Plutarch.

Suzanne Collins

#6. I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.

Brent Weeks

#7. Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#8. This book is an invention, an act of the imagination, and in no way should be mistaken for reality, the place where much good invention originates.

Carole Maso

#9. In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, the winter has not killed us again!

Leonard Cohen

#10. People with disabilities deserve the chance to build a life for themselves in the communities where they choose to live.

Barack Obama

#11. Whenever someone told her not to think about something, it had quite the opposite effect. Once she knew she shouldn't dwell on something, it took on even more importance in her mind.

Joanne Fluke

#12. Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life.

Michael Uslan

#13. I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.

Neko Case