Jettisoned Compartment Quotes

#1. He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was beset with uncertainty; in fact he had no idea what was being asked of him

Amos Oz

#2. At one point Malkin and one of his colleagues took Eichmann to the toilet. They waited outside. After a few minutes, Eichmann called out to Malkin, 'Darf ich anfangen?' ('May I begin?') Only when told yes did he begin to move his bowels.

The Eichmann Trial, page 17

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#3. Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

Henry Adams

#4. The child unlucky in his little State,
Some hearth where freedom is excluded,
A hive whose honey is fear and worry,
Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape

W. H. Auden

#5. My brother and I spent countless hours as kids playing with our dad's home camera, we would create little sketches and movies and talk shows. But it wasn't until I was 10 that I started considering that I could do it as a job.

Jade Hassoune

#6. The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears ...

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#7. Life is fragile and absurd.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. It is intent which establishes one's consequential outcomes.

T.F. Hodge

#9. This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.

Juice Newton

#10. And that we call enos ermarf."

"What?" I didn't see what he was pointing at.

"That. The way the lake curves forward into t grass, framed by derrishoul trees."

"You have a word for something like that?" I asked.

-Animorphs #4, The Visitor page 63

K.A. Applegate

#11. I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.

Alyssa Milano

#12. A bite from the Brazilian wandering spider results in an erection that lasts for several hours.

John Lloyd

#13. Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.

Ilona Andrews

#14. Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

Oscar Wilde

#15. But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron pot. How to bloom the colors. How to bleed.

Lois Lowry