Poundstone Strongest Quotes

#1. We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.

Anthony Doerr

#2. Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

John Locke

#3. For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things, and most of all when this is done in matters relating to divine worship and the glory of God.

Saint John Chrysostom

#4. I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine.

Peter Jackson

#5. I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

Boyd Rice

#6. Where would I be without my sense of direction.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#7. I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.

Mary E. Pearson

#8. Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

Dan Chaon