Unsyllabled Isolation Quotes

#1. Well, everybody knew their character. I was the only one who didn't have a partner. I basically showed up when people got in trouble. Where I came from, I don't know. Nobody knows. But I would show up to help.

Bubba Smith

#2. Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Winston Churchill

#3. Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

#4. Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united ...

D.H. Lawrence

#5. All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.

Immanuel Kant

#6. Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.

Michael J. Fox

#7. Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.

Helmut Schmidt

#8. Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.

Sherwood Anderson

#9. Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?

Ben Harper

#10. Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. Behavior isn't driven by permanent traits that apply across the board. Rather, someone could be honest at work, but deceptive with his spouse. People don't have character, but rather a multiplicity of tendencies activated by context.

Joshua V. Scher

#12. I'm busy trying not to look like anything edible.

Elle Lothlorien

#13. If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.

Lorrie Moore

#14. I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just acoustic guitar, mandolin, and sometimes bass. I really like the texture the mandolin added to my music, but my fingers were too big to play it ... I could only do little riffs and whatever.

Shamir