Metafictional Transcendence Quotes

#1. On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.

Kate Adie

#2. Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.

Shelley D Terrell

#3. Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Daley Thompson

#4. No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

Don Hertzfeldt

#5. And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left.

Thomas Keneally

#6. The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#7. I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.

Sue Grafton

#8. Stabbings, shooting, rapes, homicides -- the denizens of places like the Elk brought those crimes along with them the way ordinary travelers carried luggage.

Linda Fairstein

#9. I think at first I wanted to kill all of them. Everyone. Because if there were no people left alive, then I'd never have to love one of them again.

Sarah Porter

#10. There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

Anthony Fauci

#11. When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

#12. collectivity of politically astute citizens who, by virtue of our vaunted system of universal education and our freedom of opportunity, would be prepared to govern.

Ralph Ellison

#13. There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

Thomas Wolfe

#14. The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

Cal Thomas

#15. Bias and prejudice make me angry ... more than anything.

Rod Serling