Pullings Braids Quotes

#1. What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.

H.L. Mencken

#2. A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

Marcus Garvey

#3. Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic.

Jon Ronson

#4. Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

John Amos Comenius

#5. A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

Philip Pullman

#6. To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

Erich Fromm

#7. A wise man once said that a person is known by
the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the
company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially
at the strategic decision making level.

Anuj

#8. But he recognized that the illusions of the child only differed from those of the man in that they were more picturesque; belief in fairies and belief in the Stock Exchange as bestowers of happiness were equally vain, but the latter form of faith was ugly as well as inept.

Arthur Machen

#9. The Dog was a different matter. She was new, or so old that any book that told of her was long since dust. The creature in the fog thought the latter.

Garth Nix

#10. I turn my head to look at him again. Immediately it gets all fuzzy with hormones.
"Um, I was, uh, I was thinking about being shaken and stirred." He looks over at me and quirks one brow. "I mean I was thinking how well you could probably shake and stir something."
Ohmigod, somebody stop me!

M. Leighton

#11. This ghost of a mother had begun to ask him questions about who he was and who he truly loved. Was he capable of love?

Hanif Kureishi