Reismans Lawn Quotes

#1. The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.

Janet Malcolm

#2. If socialism failed, it was for political, more than economic, reasons; and if capitalism is to succeed it will be because it finds the political will and means to tame its economic forces.

Robert L. Heilbroner

#3. It is not enough to be able to think that if there are logical truths, natural selection might very well have given me the capacity to recognize them. That cannot be my ground for trusting my reason, because even that thought implicitly relies on reason in a prior way.

Thomas Nagel

#4. If you do well within this life, that awareness will be held within the causal structure, the part of us that lives from one lifetime to another. It will be available to you in your next life and in future lives.

Frederick Lenz

#5. For an illuminated life, give yourself up for the service of others.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Marianne Moore

#7. from yet another pocket inside his overcoat he pulled an owl - a real, live, rather ruffled-looking owl - a long quill, and a roll of parchment.

J.K. Rowling

#8. Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.

John Waters

#9. The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative aspects to recede.

Gary Hopkins

#10. Words began fights and words ended them.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#11. I kind of disguise my limitations by hanging out with very talented people. The excitement of the collision between the microphone-twirling guy from 1966 to now is just a fantastic adventure. There aren't many of us left and I've managed to kind of cover my tracks pretty good.

Robert Plant