Occurrence 00 422 Quotes

#1. Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

John Stuart Mill

#2. Music is pleasant not only because of the sound of many voices,
but because of the silence that is in it.

Karen Russell

#3. Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.

Fritz Leiber

#4. A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.

Karen Russell

#6. We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused
in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.

Edgar Allan Poe

#7. We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

Mark Twain

#8. The Avalanche," peacemaker Rachel recites, "is very important. It's a privilege to sing it. It's a celebration of our past." Everybody around the table smiles at her.
"Yeah? Well, I've seen how easily the past can get rewritten." I glare at Mr. Oamaru. "Lyrics change. New authors come along.

Karen Russell

#9. If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.

Augustine Of Hippo

#10. You were the same person, no matter what state you happened to be stuck breathing in.

Wally Lamb

#11. Making changes to better appeal to customer is INNOVATION.

Peter Drucker

#12. It's unclear whether Brauser was trying to hit Franz Josef or Rangi. I hope it was the former. There's one difference between a bully and a hero, I guess: good aim.

Karen Russell

#13. Even at this altitude, the substitute pilot's bathed in sweat, sweat running down his chin and neck. Fear must be the fountain of youth, because the substitute pilot now looks younger than any of us, doughy and flushed with horror.

Karen Russell

#14. Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.

Trent Reznor

#15. beautiful insane
in the rain

Jack Kerouac

#16. For if by chance some woman wishes to be thought of as wise, she does nothing but show herself twice a fool.

Erasmus