Sperdute Survey Quotes

#1. I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.

Donald Ray Pollock

#2. In my opinion," said Lydgate, "legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind.

George Eliot

#3. The boxing's the easy part. When you get into the ring to fight, that's the vacation. But when you get in the gym, you have to do things over and over till you're sore and deep in your mind you say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' I push that out of my mind.

Mike Tyson

#4. While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering.

Jen Hatmaker

#5. Because simplicity isn't the greatest thing in the world, but love.

Bo Sanchez

#6. The circumstances of confusion will be your path to enlightenment' - Thursday Next

Jasper Fforde

#7. Love of democracy can be likened to a mother's love for her son.It must be cherished,nurtured and protected for all of time

J.R. Ortiz

#8. I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about. Music and art can be damaged severely by too much information; I say that as somebody that has participated in that.

Trent Reznor

#9. Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.

Billy Campbell

#10. Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.

Lynne Cheney

#11. Being without my dear one made my heart ache like it had been pierced with thousands of daggers that had been placed in ice and covered in salt.

Jillian Kleine Der Lowe

#12. On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden lustre, blazed for a moment, and was extinguished for ever.

Edward Gibbon

#13. She wasn't going to sit down and patiently wait for a miracle to help her. She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.

Margaret Mitchell