Funneled Through Quotes

#1. Schopenhauer and Spinoza distilled, condensed, and funneled through the pupil, along the optic nerve, and directly into our occipital lobes. I'd love to be able to eat with my eyes - I'm

Irvin D. Yalom

#2. And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.

Camille Paglia

#4. Questions spun through Nova's head, creating a tornado of fear with a sucking wind that grew and then funneled out her mouth. She could hear herself screaming, but the shriek sounded like it was coming from someone else.

Brittney Joy

#5. So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Mark Rylance

#6. The compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves.

Lorrie Moore

#7. The most valuable practice aid is patience.

Howard Snell

#8. I'm a sailor, not a politician.

Fritz Sauckel

#9. I'd broken into his house, but he'd somehow broken into me, cracked me wide open, exposing me to so much more of life than what had existed before. And

Kylie Scott

#10. The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#11. Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Elizabeth Goudge

#12. When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

Kenny Smith

#13. What we are after is first noticing and then participating in the way the large world of the Bible absorbs the much smaller world of our science and economics and politics that provides the so-called worldview in which we are used to working out our daily concerns.

Eugene H. Peterson

#14. The highest peace is the peace between opposites.

Leonid Brezhnev

#15. Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.

Bell Hooks