Jiggering Plates Quotes

#1. The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

Don DeLillo

#2. This is what is meant by possession - to be passionately at war for the qualities in one another to contend for the treasures of each other's personalities. But how can such a war be anything but destructive and hopeless?

Lawrence Durrell

#3. Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

Kim Edwards

#4. Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like "Can you read at this thing?" And I say, "Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York."

Victoria Chang

#5. God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down

Kanye West

#6. Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Albert Camus

#7. The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded ... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

Allan Bloom

#8. For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

Harrison Ford

#9. The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. If you're strange enough, people won't notice you're kind and will leave you alone.

David Levithan

#11. The lightest touch might keep Mary there, rooted in this frozen alley. Instead, she stretched out her hand to the worn red ribbon in Doll's wig. Was it the same one, she wondered, the first one, the ribbon the child Mary had set her eyes and heart on at the Seven Dials, three long years ago?

Emma Donoghue

#12. The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections
with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds

Carl Honore

#13. How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored?

Janio Quadros

#14. You know how we built the pyramids? You gotta ask yourself a question always flip the script. What if up was down and down was up? What if you looked down into space standing up on Earth? This is how we built the pyramids.

Eddie Griffin

#15. It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

Paul Muldoon