Jedediah Purdy Quotes

#1. Lost in the shadows of the shelves, I almost fall off the ladder. I am exactly halfway up. The floor of the bookstore is far below me, the surface of a planet I've left behind.

Robin Sloan

#2. All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.

Cy Young

#3. The equality of tolerance is not that far from indifference, and very far from the equality of opportunity that LBJ envisioned.

Jedediah Purdy

#4. Live in your happiness. Live in your moment. Live Bold.

Elle Monroe

#5. 'The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

Jim Parsons

#6. Loving someone doesn't ever completely go away.

Cristin Terrill

#7. Doing what you want to do is life.

Wallace D. Wattles

#8. I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

Ruth Wilson

#9. They lay together in a sheltered place among the ruins of Brasilia while deathbeams from Chinese EMVs played like blue searchlights on broken ceramic walls.

Dan Simmons

#10. The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Aesop

#11. The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural ... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.

Ben Nicholson

#12. I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

Christian McBride

#13. Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become

Edwin Louis Cole

#14. The funny thing is, Ivy, falling in love with you was as easy as breathing. The best time of my life.

Kristen Callihan

#15. Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

Lionel Shriver

#16. A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.

Jedediah Purdy

#17. It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.

Jedediah Purdy

#18. A library will continue to function nicely without every other position, but without the pages it would grind to a stop within a quiet afternoon. All pages know this ...

Don Borchert