The Country Of The Pointed Firs Quotes

#1. Ozil could find the needle in a haystack with his sense of smell.

Ray Hudson

#2. Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of.

Darin Strauss

#3. Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?

Joan Robinson

#4. A woman can feel that she is losing her mind - or develop actual psychiatric symptoms - if the obvious realities of her life, including abuse, are denied repeatedly by her partner.

Lundy Bancroft

#5. (The story that Newton was inspired by an apple hitting his head is almost certainly apocryphal. All Newton himself ever said was that the idea of gravity came to him as he sat "in a contemplative mood" and "was occasioned by the fall of an apple.")

Stephen Hawking

#6. I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

Harold Ramis

#7. The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure.

Lee Morgan

#8. I learned that a sense of privacy doesn't have to depend on walls and doors. At least not external ones. Two people could sit in a room and read or work separately without ever breaking the silence. It's an ability to put up walls in your mind, so no one can get through.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. I write my music.

T-Pain