Krasicky Quotes

#1. The unspooling of the skein of the genome has effectively abolished racism and creationism, and the amazing findings of Hubble and Hawking have allowed us to guess at the origins of the cosmos. But how much more addictive is the familiar old garbage about tribe and nation and faith.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. It doesn't matter what you read. What matters is you read. Whether it's Tolstoy or Twilight, Kierkegaard or Betty and Veronica, keep reading, and don't ever let somebody else - anybody - have a say about, or try to control, what you choose to learn from and/or escape into.

Trent Zelazny

#3. Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream.

Dov Davidoff

#4. Among the Haida Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the verb for "making poetry" is the same as the verb "to breathe."
Such tidbits of ethnic lore delighted Amanda, and she vowed from that time onward she would try to regulate each breath as if she were composing a poem.

Tom Robbins

#5. For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

Russell Lynes

#6. When, like an Emir of tyrannic power,
Sirius appears, and on the horizon black
Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.

Victor Hugo

#7. I have a lot of fears that normal people have.

Felix Baumgartner

#8. When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#9. just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost... out there 'do'in it

Gerard Abrams

#10. Sorry, I was awash in the nobility of sacrifice. What were you saying?

John Green