Quote for Today: Lionel Shriver
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second about whether they really want it. ―Lionel Shriver, Checker and …
Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not …
Quote for Today: Isaac Asimov
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was …
Quote for Today: T.H. White
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or …
Quote for Today: Karen Marie Moning
When anything is possible, how do you choose? ―Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever Image: Writer’s Block I © Drew Coffman with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Frida Kahlo
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint: pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as …
Quote for Today: Edward Abbey
There’s another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. ―John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent Public Domain Image via …
Quote for Today: Nassim Nicholas Tale
When you ask people, ‘What’s the opposite of fragile?,’ they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That’s not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from …
Quote for Today: Neil Gaiman
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as …