Kaikki Pelit Quotes

#1. I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

Beth Gutcheon

#2. It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.

Charles Fort

#3. I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

Alan Furst

#4. It is a pity that ... the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. You shouldn't be able to do a swim at the North Pole, it should be frozen over.

Lewis Pugh

#6. Indeed, the history of 20th century physics was in large measure about how to avoid the infinities that crop up in particle theory and cosmology. The idea of point particles is convenient but leads to profound, puzzling troubles.

Gregory Benford

#7. A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

Marty Neumeier

#8. The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.

Cory Booker

#9. One thing I have learned is that the people who label you are usually the ones who know the least about who you really are and they have never made the effort to learn different.

J.S. Goldstine

#10. There are tents, I am certain, that I have not discovered in my many visits to the circus. Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened. -Friedrick Thiessen, 1896

Erin Morgenstern

#11. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?

Germaine Greer

#12. She had generated alternative versions of herself. She had insisted at brutal cost on these conversions. Layering her life, only to strip it bare. Only to be alone in the end. Her life had been paired down to its solitary components.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#13. If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

James Surowiecki