Nicholson Baker Quotes
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.Nicholson Baker
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Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
Dalton Trumbo -
There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
Yi So-Yeon -
Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
Ted Danson -
Junior Blender is a hardcore dancehall head. He's in Supersonic, which is one of the top soundclash sound-systems in Europe.
Leighton Paul Walsh -
Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
Victor Mature
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Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.
Ze Frank -
Every season I am inspired by women.
Oscar de la Renta -
Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
Barack Obama -
The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
J. G. Ballard -
If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
Lewis H. Lapham -
Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.
Anna Akhmatova
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I don't think I understood how deep the Big East was. That was probably something I wasn't prepared for. It's not easy to part rank and make the first step into the middle of the pack.
Anne Donovan -
I keep track of my kids sometimes with social media. I have to check TMZ every morning to see what's going on, and then at night, I go to bed with Snapchat.
Kris Jenner -
No matter where I go, I want to carry my family.
Auli'i Cravalho -
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka -
People are going to criticize you no matter what, so I'm going to say whatever the hell I want to say.
Lili Reinhart -
Winning is never enough, and I've got to try and do it as much as I can before my time is over.
Jason Day
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No pleasure here on earth I find For in this world I'm bound to ramble.
Ralph Stanley -
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
Chinua Achebe -
The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
Anne Carson -
The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I like to talk about weirdness. We all have strange thoughts and ideas, and when you really trust someone you can express them. And they can express them to you, and that's one of the joys of life.
Rebecca Stead -
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.
Nicholson Baker