Thirteen Moons Quotes

#1. ...clutching the Book to his chest, under his crossed arms, as if trying to press it into his ribs, until his lungs filled with letters and his heart became a pulsing paragraph.

Traci Chee

#2. I got really paranoid, burning every song onto three CDs and hiding them in various places around the house just in case I got burgled and there was, y'know, a fire in my bedroom. I told friends where I was hiding them in case I was killed.

Max Tundra

#3. Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.

J.G. Ballard

#4. I felt like a young Tony Montana having come to America, except the only person I wanted to kill was myself.

Jonathan Goldstein

#5. The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks. How nonphysicists would scoff if they were able to follow the odd course of developments!

Albert Einstein

#6. Relaxing is for the other guy.

Mark Cuban

#7. Because feelings, emotional and physical, are so foregrounded in sexual encounters, the orgy is soon the most social of human interchanges, where awareness and communication, whether verbal or no, hold all together or sunder it.

Samuel R. Delany

#8. Think of who has shaped your life and where you have come now in the present.

Shellie Palmer

#9. Everything that happens-good and bad-should motivate you to be persistent.

Jim Tressel

#10. Days of yore when America was no more than a strip of land stretching a couple hundred miles west of the Atlantic and the rest was just a very compelling idea.

Charles Frazier

#11. The battles over women's bodies can be won only by a revolution of the mind

Mona Eltahawy

#12. A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

Karen Blixen

#13. Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

#14. It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.

Gautama Buddha

#15. A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

Alan Ball