Michael Vey 3 Quotes

#1. Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.

W. H. Auden

#2. We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Anais Nin

#3. I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

E.L. Doctorow

#4. It was the greatest loss of life in the history of the British military, and many in the West began to portray the "savage" as European rather than as some native in the jungle.

David Grann

#5. Caleb once told me that love was a desire and desire was an emptiness.

Tarryn Fisher

#6. If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

John Bright

#7. Comparison is the enemy of happiness,

Seth King

#8. I don't think it's the fans, I think it's the fact that they get paid a lot of money for a picture of you doing something wrong. They don't seem to be interested in anything good any more.I think people appreciate what you do.

Debbie Reynolds

#9. I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.

Q-Tip

#10. He's like an elephant with anger issues.

Richard Paul Evans

#11. We condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is not as bad as it seems, by pointing out that goodness is not so good as it looks.

J. E. Buckrose

#12. I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others ...

Richard Paul Evans

#13. The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

Robert Stone

#14. Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man's breadth, with his heart.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#15. Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

Fabien Cousteau

#16. Civilized life exacts its toll.

Ivy Compton-Burnett