Frank Bascombe Quotes

#1. A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

Romain Gary

#2. The speaker indicts our unbelieving responses to Jesus' COMMAND not to worry. We take it less seriously than His commands about overt actions and justify ourselves that we would not worry if He kept us from any circumstance we might worry about.

Jim Savastio

#3. You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.

Paul McCartney

#4. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

Tom Robbins

#5. That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

Anna Deavere Smith

#6. If you dream you belive if you belive you can create

Walt Disney Company

#7. We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits, our lives, and even provides us with rates and credit cards and gives us the appearance of happiness.

Jose Mujica

#8. We don't get to pick our kin. The best we can hope for is to survive them ...

Jeff Lindsay

#9. A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.

Mason Cooley

#10. I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gail Carriger

#11. Kindness, laughter, and love are essentials for a good life. Everything else is negotiable.

Lisbeth Darsh

#12. It's like hypnotism,' I told Warwick, after the two had been dispatched off to drink more coffee. But Warwick wasn't buying.
'Hypnotism doesn't work like that,' she said.
'And that's the way it's not like hypnotism,' I said.

Ben Aaronovitch

#13. Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.

David Bressoud

#14. Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.

Daniel Pinchbeck