Phoenix Island Quotes

#1. It was completely insane, made absolutely no sense, but then, when did emotions ever give a flying crap about logic?

John Dixon

#2. Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.

Evgeny Morozov

#3. [I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.

James Madison

#4. Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

Lawrence Durrell

#5. s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under full sail, moving swiftly with the favorable wind and a perfect flood tide. Alarm guns sounded in New York. Soldiers

David McCullough

#6. Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#7. The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

Haruki Murakami

#8. My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.

Patrick Fugit

#9. To love and be loved is the most powerful of human needs
Clare Morgan

Mary Jo Putney

#10. There was no point in looking again. He [Cork] knew that. No point except to feed the coldness inside him. In a strange way, that was exactly what he wanted now. He wanted to feed himself to the cold until the cold had consumed him and he didn't care anymore.

William Kent Krueger