Helprin Meats Quotes

#1. Ask me if I give a shit.

John Green

#2. I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.

Chet Faker

#3. Everything you declare with your lips will be tested in your life.

Jack Hyles

#4. Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

Alan Watts

#5. I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

Daniel Handler

#6. Culture is a virus. It distorts your view of the world and destroys your capacity to think independently.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#7. What is my identity ?" "Nothing," said the Master. "You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous disciple. "Nothing that can be labeled." said the Master.

Anthony De Mello

#8. When you cried, I learned what helplessness tastes like. Because all I could do was swallow.

Penny Reid

#9. Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.

Aaron Allston

#10. Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the rules of grammar and the rules about appropriate speech in various situations.

Peter Farb

#11. However, if we strike quickly - while Iadon is still ignorant of our intentions - we could get my legion into the palace and take the king hostage.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

Tavis Smiley

#13. I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love of, and from, the land. It is medicine for broken land and empty hearts.

Robin Wall Kimmerer