“ I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney
“ [Fitzgerald's] latter work represents essentially best qualities of chivalry and decency now too often lacking in the English themselves. Malcolm Lowry
“ What overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those who go to mass. Or God might punish those whose faith is prompted… Walter Kaufmann
“ This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die. Jon Krakauer
“ Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, [...] came to teach [the ancient inhabitants of Mexico] the benefits of settled agriculture and the skills necessary to build temples. Although this deity is frequ… Graham Hancock
“ Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As lo… Robert M. Pirsig
“ Of course women's walking is often construed as performance rather than transport, with the implication that women walk not to see but to be seen, not for their own experience but for that of a male a… Rebecca Solnit
“ Jaime, I said softly, are you happy about it? About the baby? Outlawed in Scotland, barred from his own home, and with only vague prospects in France, he could pardonably have been less than enthused… Diana Gabaldon
“ It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true. J.D. Salinger
“ I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will b… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ HARRY: Voldemort is going to kill my mum and dad — and there’s nothing I can do to stop him.DRACO: That’s not true. SCORPIUS: Dad, now is not the time . . . ALBUS: There is something you could do — to… J.K. Rowling
“ But he couldn't feel self-pity in the face of the memorial. He hadn't lost nearly enough as these children, who'd lost their homeland and, in many cases,their whole families. Perhaps they had gained s… Peter Robinson
“ But a certain dullness of mind seems an almost necessary qualification, if not for every public man, at least for every one seriously engaged in making money. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ 7 Up soda pop mixed with bright pink grenadine with a chemical-tasting maraschino cherry stuck to the plastic straw. It was one of those drinks marketed for children, but Mandy could see that she wasn… Rebecca McNutt
