Uncentred Quotes

#1. I found it challenging to give her an accurate account of his odd humanity, his unique philosophy, and his uncentred morality

Haruki Murakami

#2. A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

Ezra Pound

#3. Mirren pulled the knife blade across the vampire's throat before he could answer. Two more strokes and it was done. Sometimes, one didn't need a sword to take a head. Rage and a good, sharp knife worked just fine.

Susannah Sandlin

#4. Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may be situated by itself beyond the sphere of influence of a body cognate with it.

Johannes Kepler

#5. The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

Robert Hughes

#6. Tough, and square-jawed, J.C. is a cold-blooded killer. Or so he claims. I think it means he likes to murder amphibians.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. I know so many players who say they wouldn't entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

Gordon Taylor

#8. I seriously think he's one of those dudes where, his whole life, he's gotten credit for being smart and moral for no reason other than he's tall. Anyway,

Curtis Sittenfeld

#9. Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

#10. Was it in woman's nature to be content with all that a man could give her, and not forever want what was not his to give?

Thomas Wolfe

#11. I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

Floyd Skloot

#12. The mistake people keep making is that if they find a wonderful new tool, like email, they have to give up all others. They don't. You have simply added another very useful means to your communications repertoire.

Judith Martin

#13. I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird's-eye view of the world.

Lindy Booth

#14. I'm about as scientific as a saltine

Charlaine Harris