Stiffening Fabric Quotes

#1. The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but that we cared wildly, then deeply, for one person out of billions. We bound ourselves to the fickle, changing, and dying as if they were rock.

Annie Dillard

#2. The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

William Morris

#3. It's scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.

Amartya Sen

#4. President Bush appeared with Arnold Schwarzenegger at a huge campaign event. Only in California can a governor who speaks German and a president who can barely speak English try to make themselves clear to an audience that's primarily Spanish.

Jay Leno

#5. Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#6. You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason
if you pick the proper postulates.

Isaac Asimov

#7. I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder.

Rick Riordan

#8. The poetry made her uncomfortable. It was too much like reading spells.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

#9. I used to carry a rabbit's foot for luck. Then it was a monkey's paw. Now it's a camel's toe.

Kristen Schaal

#10. There are some favors that can't be bought, and some kindnesses that should only be given freely.

Julianne Donaldson

#11. I don't think the rich or the poor are to blame, .. I think we are all to blame.

Jonathan Jakubowicz

#12. It pains me to speak of God in the third person.

Martin Buber

#13. It was like being pleased y a thorn bush, feeling fond of every prickle. Another second and he was going to say something ridiculous like that.

C.S. Pacat

#14. The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

Vladimir Nabokov