Take Me Out Of This Dull World Quotes

#1. I have a household of good books, and reading tends to take for me the place of experience - or rather to become itself experience concentrated. You will say this is a dull picture, but I cultivate dulness in a world grown too noisy.

Henry James

#2. It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more than a mechanism for transferring wealth from shareholders to management.

Peter Schiff

#3. But even though Diego looked like his normal self again-not made of blazing light, anyway-I knew he would never look the same to me

Stephenie Meyer

#4. To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.

Fred D'Aguiar

#5. I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

David Sedaris

#6. You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.

Jonathan R. Miller

#7. Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

W.B.Yeats

#8. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

Alan Moore

#9. Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

John Hume

#10. Even as the lion, not trembling at noises; even as the wind, not caught in a net; even as the lotus-leaf, untouched by the water - so do thou wander alone like the rhinoceros!

Swami Vivekananda

#11. Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

John Dewey

#12. Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

Jim Butcher

#13. Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

Elie Wiesel

#14. Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.

Mark Tobey

#15. Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.

Garrison Keillor