Overfamiliar Crossword Quotes

#1. Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. But the part where you had to teach your kids that life could throw curveballs and you had to dig deep to find it in you to adjust was a part of that shit.

Kristen Ashley

#3. Street's disciple, my raps are trifle.
I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.

Nas

#4. Who would I marry? I know, my ego. We'd make the perfect couple.

Max Beesley

#5. In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.

James Henry Breasted

#6. The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Klaus Kinkel

#7. If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

Larry Wall

#8. Reason would confront falsehoods with "solid principles [to] serve as the foundation for diametrically opposed truths,

Anonymous

#9. If we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that we shall not become partakers with Him in His glory. If that is true of us we shall be believers in word only, not in deed. When deeds are absent, our faith is dead.

Symeon The New Theologian

#10. The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes
the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

Michael Palin

#12. You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

David Antin

#13. His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.

Veronica Roth

#14. almost exquisite, the slight madness

James Tate