Instrumented Quotes

#1. A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#2. If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

Peter Cook

#3. We hide behind our assumptions and preconceptions as if they were fortresses - shutting people out. I love to witness the fall of a preconception; the way it renders you naked

Karen Hitchcock

#4. Appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

Laurel Lea

#5. Maria loved the way she and Liz could just sit in the same room together, each doing their own thing, sometimes talking, sometimes not. You had to be really good friends with someone before it felt this comfortable to basically ignore them for long stretches of time.

Melinda Metz

#6. If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.

Hod Lipson

#7. After being still for so long, I am incapable of moving quicker than ivy growing over a rock.

Fennel Hudson

#8. She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

C.E. Murphy

#9. The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

Rebecca Skloot

#10. Raised in a brothel, I'd think such a sight common for you." He approached her slowly, his gaze caressing her as he drew close. "True." He drew a delicate pattern over her bare breasts and midriff. "But you aren't common, even if you do only have two breasts.

Grace Draven