Top 11 Polchinski Monument Quotes
#2. It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar
maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless
and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.
Maggie Stiefvater
#3. I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.
Connie Smith
#4. Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.
(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)
Patti Smith
#6. We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.
David Lloyd George
#7. I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#8. The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.
Barry Eisler
#9. Fate succombs many a species. One alone jeopardizes itself.
W. H. Auden
#10. She discovered that her feet were cold, her head ached, and that her heart was colder than the former, fuller of pain than the latter.
Louisa May Alcott
#11. Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
Ang Lee
