Inadvertently Revealing Quotes

#1. As long as we do violence to other animals, we'll keep on doing violence to ourselves.

Paul Russell

#2. skate across the icy sea of oilcloth between me and the bookcase. I kneel up in bed and put on Rob's coat. Its thick, stiff wool is becoming supple again from the heat of my body night after night. I put the sleeve to my face and

Helen Dunmore

#3. Daredevil nature as a young man. When I read what William Roth had written, I sighed. So that was where my own two boys had gotten the trait that was turning their mother's hair gray.

Katherine Paterson

#4. The cards are no good that your are holding unless you're from another world.

Bob Dylan

#5. Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.

Mike Mills

#6. I wanted to paint with shadows and capture what light would look like in clothes.

Christian Cota

#7. He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Otherwise he has to translate, and that slows him down.

John Steinbeck

#8. Stop trying to control how you feel, and instead take control of what you do.

Russ Harris

#9. Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.

Dorothy West

#10. If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

Herta Muller

#11. She had often dreamed of going to a teahouse to play chess or argue esoteric scholarly points with students and feisty old men and women. It was a dream forbidden to a royal princess, of course.

Liz Braswell