Nature Morte Quotes

#1. In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Orville Wright

#2. Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.

Thomas Keneally

#3. To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs
but a tribute nevertheless.

George Steiner

#4. All we can do is try not to fall.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#5. but what his family most resented, he reflected, was his wish for privacy. To dine alone, or to sit alone after dinner, was flat rebellion, to be fought with every weapon of underhand stealth or of open appeal.

Virginia Woolf

#6. Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

Jean Baudrillard

#7. Let's try it," he said.
"This is serious," she said. "You could get hurt. Or die."
"But if we can touch, that means we can make out, right?" he asked.
"Maybe."
"You want me to risk my life for maybe?" He grinned.

J.L. Bryan

#8. I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

Jon Ronson

#9. To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed

Christopher Paolini

#10. Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you'll be able to see in the dark after a while. You'll adjust.

Jane Campion

#11. This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.

Gary Johnson

#12. He wavin' at you, Dave. Hey, it's that drunk man done fell in the bayou the ot'er night. That man must surely love water.

James Lee Burke

#13. Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

Plutarch

#14. The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable, whether in the eyes of the electorate or the eyes of whatever the local economy is built on; that would bring me hope.

Mark Leibovich