River Atlas Quotes

#1. I'm not really a fan of sleep, to be honest with you. I work out at 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, and sometimes I just keep going. I've never been a big sleeper.

Rob Kardashian

#2. I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

Orhan Pamuk

#3. Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
[Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago?
Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]

Ovid

#4. I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

Jan Neruda

#5. never stop playing

Sarah Winman

#6. Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

Rem Koolhaas

#7. We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.

Moira Kelly

#8. Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness.

Sandra Bullock

#9. I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

Dustin Hoffman

#10. Where other women ... were lovely, Annie Gamache was alive.
Late, too late, Jean Guy Beauvoir had come to appreciate how very important it was, how very attractive it was, how very rare it was, to be fully alive.

Louise Penny

#11. Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.

Mason Cooley