Wraths Skin Quotes

#1. A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are.

Donna Tartt

#2. In America, on the ordinate plane of faith versus reason, the x-axis of faith intersects with the y-axis of reason at the zero point of "I don't give a damn what you think".

Sarah Vowell

#3. If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

Brian Foote

#4. Being bored is an insult to oneself.

Jules Renard

#5. You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

Lou Reed

#6. These were loud sounds, which were, therefore, public sounds, which, in turn, meant they were everyone's problem and, therefore, not mine. But small sounds were nearby and suggested such things as stealth betrayed, and were, therefore, pressing and personal.

Terry Pratchett

#7. I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money.

Jens Lekman

#8. The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

Michael J. Fox

#9. The child doesn't just live in his environment, it becomes a part of him.

Paula Polk Lillard

#10. He went to rub his eyes and missed.

Max Barry

#11. The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

Jill Abramson

#12. I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

Peter Ustinov