Transposing Chart Quotes

#1. The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road.

Mark Helprin

#2. Let's get this straight: God is good all of the time. The devil is bad all of the time. We do ourselves a tremendous service to remember the difference between the two.

Bill Johnson

#3. ( ... philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.

Epifanio De Los Santos

#4. I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

Ralph Ellison

#5. I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

George W. Bush

#6. The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

Ludwik Fleck

#7. I'd got married and wanted to have kids, so had kids, brought them up, did other things, and slowly got back into music. And it feels great, having one foot in the present, writing and covering interesting songs, and having one foot in the past.

Kim Wilde

#8. The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.

William Wharton

#9. I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

John Glover

#10. Even the formal measure of the Seasons seemed suspended in the wintry silence.

Anthony Powell

#11. Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.

Nicholson Baker