Phylogenies Define Quotes

#1. Curled up, closed his eyes, and marched himself off, as if sleep were an actual place, like home, like the kitchen - a place a mouse could go to.

Cynthia Voigt

#2. My grandmother told me something I've never forgotten. 'Never fuck anyone you wouldn't want to be.' -audience member

Kate Bornstein

#3. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

#4. He was skinny with soft hair, and his thick, murky eyes watched as the stranger played one more song in the heavy room. From face to face, he looked on as the man played and the woman wept. The different notes handled her eyes. Such sadness.

Markus Zusak

#5. Sometimes I think I'm an artist. Once in a great while I even think I may be a visionary, but never a prophet, a seer.

Henry Miller

#6. Startup stories are always smoother in the telling than they are in reality. A startup is not one, but a series of 'Aha!' moments, and some which seem like 'Aha!' moments but turn out not to be.

Anthony Goldbloom

#7. Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught moral notions such as the wrongness of harming another person.

Paul Bloom

#8. The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.

Criss Jami

#9. When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

C.S. Forester

#10. You might not be able to stomach it, but as long as you can mind it, your heart will be all right.

Brian Celio