Oliver Sacks Uncle Tungsten Quotes

#1. So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.

Chad Harbach

#2. One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.

Tom Felton

#3. Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel.

Criss Jami

#5. When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both

Bob Goff

#6. For a moment, he thought he sensed, beneath the visible world, some blind infrastructure connecting the two of them, or the three of them, and connecting them to still others. People he hadn't even met.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#7. I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

Lilly Pulitzer

#8. Her brain couldn't seem to catch up with the news. It was like the way she'd kept rolling toward Will last night in her sleep, only to find empty space where he should have been, and then waking up with a jolt.

Liane Moriarty

#9. I've bought these peanuts before. They're round, cubical, pock-marked, seamed. Broken peanuts. A lot of dust at the bottom of the jar. But they taste good. Most of all I like the packages themselves. You were right, Jack. This is the last avant-garde. Bold new forms. The power to shock.

Don DeLillo

#10. If it wasn't meant to be, it would have never been.

Candice Swanepoel

#11. If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.

Denise Morrison

#12. Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.

Philip Sidney

#13. I went to Norman High then I walked across the street after that and went to college. That's my home town, that's where I'm from. Physically I'm a Texan, but I'm an Oklahoman.

Christian Kane