Hearbeat Quotes

#1. I'd had the picture of John Lennon in my room all the time I was at gymnas and proceeded to hang it on the wall behind the typewriter.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#2. Oppression sometimes benefits its victims more than its perpetrators.

Andrew Solomon

#3. I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.

Ben Lerner

#4. The AMA is urging the Federal Government not to classify marijuana as a dangerous drug and do more research. That's what they said. It's a big story, yeah. Yeah, that request came not only from the AMA but also from KFC.

Conan O'Brien

#5. I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.

Donna Shalala

#6. There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

Francis Bacon

#7. Why wouldn't you talk to us Little Sister?

"I tried," Little Sister says. "I did. But my voice was lost in sadness.

Audrey Couloumbis

#8. Life isn't our possession, something we own. We're alive as we receive life from God, as the gift of his grace and mercy.

John Webster

#9. Always revisit your decisions in the light of new knowledge and information. Don't be afraid to change.

Chris Guillebeau

#10. We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?' she whispered. 'No, we never had to.

Ayn Rand

#11. The characters' lives were so much more interesting than the lonely hearbeat of my own

Ruth Sepetys

#12. Never had so much intelligence meant so little. The conduct of the war had been set by a series of lies that the leaders of the United States told one another and the American people.

Tim Weiner

#13. The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.

A. Whitney Brown

#14. I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

Denise Mina

#15. Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Edmund Burke