Literary Collections Quotes

#1. He went on saying "No" to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex.

Virginia Woolf

#2. If a stranger lives with you in your land, do not molest him. You must treat him like one of your own people and love him as yourselves, for you were strangers in Egypt.

Karen Armstrong

#3. I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.

Laura Marano

#4. Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Salvador Dali

#5. The urge to change my mind and not go at all is enormous. I'm absolutely terrified to leave on that boat. But, if I don't go, there'll be one more broken person in this world who gave up a dream to sit in a chair, pick up the TV remote and shrink.

Lexis De Rothschild

#6. I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

Lorrie Moore

#7. Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it.

Nenia Campbell

#8. I use Ahava skincare, which is natural line from Israel and is made from minerals from the Dead Sea. I have the most sensitive skin.

Kristin Davis

#9. It's not just in the air. Spring is in the light. There's a different light in March and April. It's in the grass, leaves and flowers. It's in the birdsong and baaa of baby lambs. Mostly though, spring blooms in my heart

Toni Sorenson

#10. Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time ... The subject of logic has certainly completely changed its nature and possibilities with Godel's achievement.

John Von Neumann

#11. Someday," she said evilly, rubbing her hands against her eyes, "I am going to get my eyes open all the time and then I will eat you and Lizzie both.

Shirley Jackson

#12. I know that you always take around because you talk so much, but I like to always know what's happening in your world.

Anna Bell

#13. If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.

Matt Damon