Purple Tulip Quotes

#1. Esther runs Unalaq's ruby thumbnail up the stem of a purple tulip. You miss purple, after a few years ...

David Mitchell

#2. The amount of money I would pay for people to stop fucking up grammar is only slightly lower than the amount I'd give to ensure I never have grammatical errors in the statements I make calling others out on their grammatical errors.

Jenny Lawson

#3. Real estate is the best investment on earth, however, when the music stops playing, which happens occasionally, don't be the one left without a chair.

Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur

#4. Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.

Gary Snyder

#5. Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

Pankaj Mishra

#6. Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

Nancy Kress

#7. All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization ... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

Aldous Huxley

#8. Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.

Mas Oyama

#9. I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.

David Wilkerson

#10. I don't want to look too far ahead. The journey is what's happening right now, not what's on the finishing line.

Sabirul Islam

#11. Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

Robin Williams

#12. This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)

Karen Joy Fowler