Flooded Strand Quotes

#1. What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything as imperfect and fallible as an actual human being?

Ellen Kushner

#2. Life is full of horrible mistakes.

Louis C.K.

#3. I'm a very melancholic kind of person. I don't know why; I think certain people are born a certain way.

Lykke Li

#4. Public condemnation goes a long way in establishing what is and what is not acceptable in a society. The public good will prevail if the public demands it.

Laurence Overmire

#5. Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

John Dryden

#6. For all you know, the way I act could very well be an act. Or maybe it isn't. I could be the most dangerous, most vicious one of the bunch, because no one takes me seriously!

Stevie Richards

#7. China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision.

Evan Osnos

#8. So that's why you've got to try, you got to breath and have some fun. Though I'm not paid, I play this game, and I won't stop until I'm done. But what I really want to know is - Are you gonna go my way?

Lenny Kravitz

#9. God doesn't send His children to Hell either. It's just the Devil's children that God sends to Hell. Why should God look after the Devil's children.

John R. Rice

#10. If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

John Dewey

#11. The only balm to sorrow is memory; the only salve for the pain of losing someone to death is acknowledging the life that existed before.

Nina Sankovitch

#12. A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

Barnett Cocks

#13. There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

Isabella Rossellini