Dana > Dana's Quotes

“How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.”
― Craig Thompson, Blankets

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Why does each man kill the thing he loves?...you killed it by accident. Thinking you were doing something else. It was a cherished vase that broke while you were cleaning it. The phone rang and you dropped it. Shattering, when all you wanted was to keep it safe.”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"

He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“The past is obdurate.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Dancing is life.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace.”
Spirit says, “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.”
― Marianne Williamson

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Talking to people is easy. It’s getting through to them that’s the problem. The introduction of language was a retrograde step. Designed by some friends of mine to keep people apart. To prevent them from understanding one another.”
― Patrick Tilley, Mission

“Religion is not what it’s about, Leo,’ he said. ‘That’s something you people dreamed up. What I’m concerned with is awareness.’ I grimaced. ‘You may have trouble in putting that across. I hate to tell you this but, in the last twenty years, “awareness” has become one of the world’s great clichés. It’s been exploited by all the wrong kinds of people.”
― Patrick Tilley, Mission: A novel