Personal Cosmology Quotes

#1. There she was, the mother of me, like a lit plinth,
Heavenly, though I was reared to find this kind
Of visitation impractical; she was an unbearable detail
Of the supreme celestial map,
Of which I had been taught that there was
No such thing.

Lucie Brock-Broido

#2. Man's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field.

Ron Brackin

#3. People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. It's your hero complex, isn't it? You should see someone about that."
"Right after I get my head examined.

Brynn Kelly

#5. The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, "It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different," it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.

Geena Davis

#6. Simplicate, and add lightness!

William Bushnell Stout

#7. There's so few things men can talk about. If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he doesn't like girls.

Truman Capote

#8. a cloud, it would

John Fowles