Unstrung Symbol Quotes

#1. You have bewitched me body and soul.

Jane Austen

#2. If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever.

John McPhee

#3. The moral? If there isn't demand for what you are creating, nothing I have to say in this chapter will help.

Robin Chase

#4. I was 65 in May, and when I have just shaved, I see my father. I realise that I now have the same facial idiosyncrasies he had: little twitches here and there, mouth and nose movements, even the way he would tilt his head.

Rick Wakeman

#5. Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.

Kathryn Harrison

#6. Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

Stewart Udall

#7. The legendary Danish physicist Niels Bohr distinguished two kinds of truths. An ordinary truth is a statement whose opposite is a falsehood. A profound truth is a statement whose opposite is also a profound truth.

Frank Wilczek

#8. Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available - those that are easy and quick.

Scott Anderson

#9. Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

Michaela DePrince

#10. Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

Donald Barthelme

#11. The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

Max Weber

#12. The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.

Jerry Coleman

#13. I turn over and lie flat on my back,staring at the ceiling. When she slept beside me, I slept well. I need her in my life, in my bed. She was the day to my night. I'm going to get her back.

E.L. James