Intricate Text Quotes

#1. Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

Jay McInerney

#2. Chairman Greenspan is, of course, a master.

Ben Bernanke

#3. I think Ace is a great guitarist, and with the four original members of KISS, there's a magic and chemistry that you just can't touch.

Vinnie Vincent

#4. She needs us, for our love, but she doesn't need us for anything else now." He swallowed hard and said, "Dying is a very solitary thing.

Lois Lowry

#5. I know he's a good baby ... but the challenge is to raise him into a good boy, then a good man.

Sarah Addison Allen

#6. To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.

Herbert Croly

#7. Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

Richard Stallman

#8. Emptiness is in fact form when we forget the self. There's nothing in the universe *other* than ourself. Nothing to compare, name, or identify. When it's the only thing there is, how can we talk about it?

Taizan Maezumi

#9. Do you believe in reincarnation?" I asked as we looked together at the intricate drawings, reading bits about them in the paragraph of text on each page. "I don't," he said. "I believe we're here once and what we do matters.

Cheryl Strayed

#10. The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

Joseph Sobran

#11. There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though."
"What help?"
Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.

Gordon Korman

#12. My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.

Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#13. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Adam Smith

#14. My knees are ticklish.

Juliana Hatfield

#15. It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson