Shusterov Valerie Quotes

#1. Anything that propels me to create, like [my book, Straight Walk]. It kept me inspired for almost four years.

Patricia Velasquez

#2. Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#3. Nietzsche is at the base of you all. Within you God is dead, only the ego is alive. And remember, they cannot both exist together.

Osho

#4. The middle years of life come on like thunder.

Nellie L. McClung

#5. I know part of my sorrow is just disguised self-pity, I needed that exchange and I worry how I'll cope without it and whether I can replace it - if only it were as easy as buying a new dog.

William Boyd

#6. I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.

Bridget Hall

#7. Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Richard Rorty

#8. In this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow ... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)

Virginia Woolf

#9. How had he survived? And then he looked deep into her eyes and he saw the truth there. He hadn't.
He hadn't survived.

Kady Cross

#10. Unless man is commited to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labours in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality

Adam Clayton Powell III