Zooty Quotes

#1. Civic life, though, was not optional, and Aristotle tells me the Athenians had a word for those who refused to participate in public affairs: idiotes. It is where we get our word idiot.

Eric Weiner

#2. She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.

Shana Abe

#3. When that fire hit your ass, it will sober your ass up quick! I saw something, I went, Well, that's a pretty blue. You know what? That looks like ... FIRE! Fire is inspirational. They should use it in the Olympics, because I ran the 100 in 4.3.

Richard Pryor

#4. He'd asked for his to be cooked medium rare, which in Mirkarvian cuisine meant it had been shown a picture of an oven for a moment and then served. A very brief moment, mind.

Jonathan L. Howard

#5. Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.

Elizabeth Peters

#6. The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

Walter Mosley

#7. Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

Tom Holt

#8. Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.

Bill Vaughan

#9. We ourselves are made of Stardust.

Carl Sagam

#10. You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.

Ludwig Borne

#11. People were too anesthetized to the world around them,

Nicole Williams

#12. Who was I now - woman or man? That question could never be answered as long as those were the only choices; it could never be answered if it had to be asked.

Leslie Feinberg

#13. To his children, Will showed the same love he had always shown to her, fierce and unyielding. And the same protectiveness he had only ever showed to one other person: the person James had been named after. Will's parabatai, Jem.

Cassandra Clare

#14. So this was all you got:the zooty sideburns and masturbator's pallor of an old Ted in a black suit and the secular obsequies.

Martin Amis

#15. Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#16. I still have a hard time saying who Johnny [ Cash ] is in one sentence. He seemed so contradictory in his actions, and I think that's probably what is most fascinating about him and what made him such an interesting character to study.

Joaquin Phoenix