Wordsmiths Ref Quotes

#1. No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.

Abhijit Naskar

#2. I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

Edgar A. Guest

#3. The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks,
They are all fire and every one doth shine

William Shakespeare

#4. You are not the one who speaks your thoughts - you are the one who hears your thoughts." In Hebrew, the word for the highest soul, that which God breathed into Adam, is N'Shama - "the hearer.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#5. Obviously there aren't enough Latino roles out there - I wish there were more of them - but there's got to be more in the future. I'm sure there will be more in the future. The public is asking for it.

Paula Garces

#6. My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.

Richard Diebenkorn

#7. If joy is the aim and the core of existence, she thought, and if that which has the power to give one joy is always guarded as one's deepest secret, then they had seen each other naked in that moment.

Ayn Rand

#8. I find the dead easier to be around than the dying. They are not in pain, not afraid of death. There are no awkward silences and conversations that dance around the obvious. They aren't scary...Cadavers, once you get used to them--and you do that quite fast--are surprisingly easy to be around.

Mary Roach

#9. Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.

Kate Christensen