Uncle Silas Quotes

#1. I dont make it a practice to respond to reports in the social media but occasionally it is necessary.

Amalie Benjamin

#2. I had been brought up in an elementary school where, my first few grades, I remember being specifically told that my teachers were gay. I was just that age and that was just how it was, and my parents were very ... You know, that's how I was raised. Like super-progressive.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#3. No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Like him, Uncle had eccentric tastes and liked old things. The difference, Silas was beginning to see, was that Uncle saw such objects as extensions of himself, of his body, essential, required, uniquely his. This thought made Silas uneasy.

Ari Berk

#5. I'm horrible in the mornings. I'm grumpy.

Hugh Grant

#6. Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in flesh.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#7. If you're sad and you like beer, I'm your lady, ... The Saddest Music in the World.

Isabella Rossellini

#8. Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.

Robert Caro

#9. I could spend the rest of my life
READING,
Just satisfying my
CURIOSITY
- because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

Malcolm X

#10. We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#11. Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#12. My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate.

Viola Davis

#13. The world," he resumed after a short pause, "has no faith in any man's conversion; it never forgets what he was, it never believes him anything better, it is an inexorable and stupid judge.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#14. We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root.

Jakob Bohme

#15. I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I was swept up, washed, my soul blanketed with blessed relief.

Amy Harmon

#16. Hey, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Now, you can give an old dog new toys! And, hey, we've got one here.

Si Robertson

#17. Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

Basil Bunting

#18. Silas deliberately ignored that question, which he knew was as much for him as it was for Uncle. It was going to be one of those nights where she'd sink her teeth into a topic and keep chewing and chewing at it.

Ari Berk