Sister Lap Quotes

#1. When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

Irvine Welsh

#2. A date once leaned in to kiss me, and he ended up kissing my cheek. He was a little offended, but I didn't want to kiss him just to not hurt his feelings.

Denise Richards

#3. The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

Zhuangzi

#4. Those who know the least obey the best.

George Farquhar

#5. A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

Nick Cave

#6. Within the same hour as the murder took place, Isabel Trumbo sat in her armchair dozing, the Alaskan Outdoor magazine on her lap. Her kid sister Alma fidgeted in the other armchair, from time to time picking up her newspaper folded over to the day's crossword puzzle.

Ed Lynskey

#7. Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.

James C. Scott

#8. You're aberrated in one way," he said to Will. "I'm aberrated in another. A schizoid (isn't that what you are?) and, from the other side of the world, a paranoid. Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.

Aldous Huxley

#9. Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

Samuel Johnson

#10. Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal