Staying Speechless Quotes

#1. Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure
when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality.

Toba Beta

#2. Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen.

Katrina Monroe

#3. Sometimes I feel like if two parents were given $100, and a child-free person was given $100, everyone would assume that the parents would invest their money wisely because they're smart. And people like me would just go buy candy.

Jen Kirkman

#4. But there are things I want to do before I die, a whole list that I know I probably won't get to, but I'm sure as hell going to try.

Julie Kagawa

#5. To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything
all I had to do was be.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#6. The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.

Clement Freud

#8. Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.

Liu Cixin

#9. I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

Craig Ferguson

#10. Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

Michel Onfray

#11. I walk four miles three or four times a week.

Cheryl Ladd

#12. But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.

Isaac Marion

#13. I have been told that this kind of unraveling of nerves is natural, that It'll be around for a while. But if this is meant as consolation, it brings no cheer.

Seth Haines