William Faulkner Quentin Compson Quotes

#1. The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.

Steve Jobs

#2. We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

William Glasser

#3. You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

Douglas Coupland

#4. I wonder what kind of person would come out if I ever did erase all my inhibitions at once, what kind of being is bottled up inside me now.

Joseph Heller

#5. I kind of stopped buying vinyl because I'm always on the road and you can never listen to it.

Simon Taylor-Davis

#6. We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. I remember asking everyone else in my life for forgiveness, but I realize I never asked myself.

A.S. King

#8. Ah, background checks,' I say. 'The foundation of every beautiful romance.

Tana French

#9. The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#10. The water in which the mystic swims is the same water a madman drowns in.

Joseph Campbell

#11. Ralph ... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

William Golding

#12. Dreams are true while they last,'" he recites in a whisper, "'and do we not live in dreams?

Becca Ritchie

#13. Baby's room should be close enough to your room so that you can hear baby cry, unless you want to get some sleep, in which case baby's room should be in Peru.

Dave Barry

#14. In Tibet your wealth is determined by how many yaks you own.

Jordan Romero

#15. The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.

Loren Eiseley