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The thing that makes me happy is that I know that on Mars, two hundred years from now, my books are going to be read. They’ll be up on dead Mars with no atmosphere. And late at night, with a flashligh...

Ray Bradbury

The thing that makes me happy is that I know that on Mars, two hundred years from now, my books are going to be read. They’ll be up on dead Mars with no atmosphere. And late at night, with a flashligh...

Ray Bradbury

Tags: mars, ray bradbury

The thing about having something hidden in your past is that you spend every minute of the future building a wall that makes the monster harder to see. You convince yourself that the wall is sturdy an...

Jodi Picoult

The thing about having something hidden in your past is that you spend every minute of the future building a wall that makes the monster harder to see. You convince yourself that the wall is sturdy an...

Jodi Picoult

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. You dedicate yourself passionately to something, to a project, to people, to a family, you think of nothing else for weeks a...

Iris Murdoch

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. You dedicate yourself passionately to something, to a project, to people, to a family, you think of nothing else for weeks a...

Iris Murdoch

Tags: hamlet, jealousy, love, regret, remorse, theater, theatre

The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your m...

Ray Bradbury

The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your m...

Ray Bradbury

Tags: manipulation, media, television

The telephone is a modern symbol for communications which never take place

Lawrence Durrell

The telephone is a modern symbol for communications which never take place

Lawrence Durrell

The tedium of existence and feeling imprisoned in a deplorable job can cause a person to consider the most expedient escape route from suffering including flirting with suicide. Fernando Pessoa wrote...

Kilroy J. Oldster

The tedium of existence and feeling imprisoned in a deplorable job can cause a person to consider the most expedient escape route from suffering including flirting with suicide. Fernando Pessoa wrote...

Kilroy J. Oldster

Tags: depression, discontent, discontentment, discouragement, suffering, suicidal thoughts, suicide, tedium

The tears dissolve the last block of ice in my throat. I feel the frozen stillness melt down through the inside of me, dripping shards of ice that vanish in a puddle of sunlight on the stained floor....

Laurie Halse Anderson

The tears dissolve the last block of ice in my throat. I feel the frozen stillness melt down through the inside of me, dripping shards of ice that vanish in a puddle of sunlight on the stained floor....

Laurie Halse Anderson

The teaching that diminishes the urgency for reaching all the unreached peoples of the world with the only news that can save them is a teaching that opposes people. Listen to these severe words spoke...

John Piper

The teaching that diminishes the urgency for reaching all the unreached peoples of the world with the only news that can save them is a teaching that opposes people. Listen to these severe words spoke...

John Piper

Tags: missions

The task of the narrator is not an easy one, he said. He appears to be required to choose his tale from among the many that are possible. But of course that is not the case. The case is rather to make...

Cormac McCarthy

The task of the narrator is not an easy one, he said. He appears to be required to choose his tale from among the many that are possible. But of course that is not the case. The case is rather to make...

Cormac McCarthy

The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.

William Shakespeare

The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.

William Shakespeare

Tags: shakespeare, william shakespeare

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception an...

Naomi Wolf

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception an...

Naomi Wolf

Tags: aging, beauty, body image, cosmetic surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet industry, double standards, eating disorders, equality

The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking beautiful. If women can walk but believe our...

Naomi Wolf

The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking beautiful. If women can walk but believe our...

Naomi Wolf

Tags: aging, beauty, body image, cosmetic surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet industry, double standards, eating disorders, equality

The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.

Rudolfo Anaya

The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.

Rudolfo Anaya

Tags: bless, good, llano, me, men, moon, rudolfo, sun, ultima

The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light.

Gregory Maguire

The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light.

Gregory Maguire

The sun is good because it does the body good, and because it has the sense to reappear every day; therefore, whatever returns is good, not what passes and is done with.

Umberto Eco

The sun is good because it does the body good, and because it has the sense to reappear every day; therefore, whatever returns is good, not what passes and is done with.

Umberto Eco

The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The strategy of power has long seemed founded on the apathy of the masses. The more passive they were, the more secure it was. But this logic is only characteristic of the bureaucratic and centralist...

Jean Baudrillard

The strategy of power has long seemed founded on the apathy of the masses. The more passive they were, the more secure it was. But this logic is only characteristic of the bureaucratic and centralist...

Jean Baudrillard

The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.

Joseph J. Ellis

The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.

Joseph J. Ellis

Tags: military, servant leadership

The stories we read in books, what's presented to us as being interesting - they have very little to do with real life as it's lived today. I'm not talking about straight-up escapism, your vampires, s...

Paul Murray

The stories we read in books, what's presented to us as being interesting - they have very little to do with real life as it's lived today. I'm not talking about straight-up escapism, your vampires, s...

Paul Murray

Tags: literature, meaning, modern life, modernity, novels

The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned his dreams by night, calling to him and pleading with him to unlock the...

David Weber

The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned his dreams by night, calling to him and pleading with him to unlock the...

David Weber

Tags: aliveness, berserker, chain, chains, desire, dreams, glory, haunt, haunted, haunting
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