Steve Toltz Quicksand Quotes

#1. Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.

Billy Joel

#2. I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power, they're able to be the strongest arms that they can be, incredibly strong. That's what keeps us going.

Lisa Gerrard

#3. Come, let us be bored together

Alexandre Dumas

#4. Desperation yields dependency, and dependency yields power. And as you decrease your earthly abilities through sacrifice and embracing less, you'll see your spiritual fruit increase.

Will Davis Jr.

#5. It is hard to hear the truth from people who get paid to distort it.

Sean S. Kamali

#6. Shelby told her that if she had a hundred lifetimes she would want Sue to be her mother in every one, just as for a hundred lifetimes she would want James to be the one that stopped on the road that night. She would want him to stay here. She would want him to know her when no one else did.

Alice Hoffman

#7. I'm not white. Why should I care about the future of white societies

Roosh V

#8. I think probably winning these things [an Oscar] can be a bit of a curse depending on who you are and how you think. But I haven't been on a journey to get anywhere in particular, so that hasn't changed. And my criteria for choosing projects hasn't changed.

Cate Blanchett

#9. The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary.

Vittorio Grigolo

#10. What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

Bill Gates

#12. Never leave a guy alive who'd like to see you dead.

Richard Stark

#13. Almonds. Apricots. Avocadoes. Some peaches I don't know. Grapefruit. Lemones. Probably oranges.

Jane Smiley

#14. On eluding conviction after mistrial: Why me? I am blessed. I can't complain. I am walking out the door. I am going to have a healthy and happy Christmas.

John A. Gotti