Quotes of: Albert-einstein Keyword

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

I guess sometimes the greatest memories are made in the most unlikely of places, further proof that spontaneity is more rewarding than a meticulously planned life.

The Edge of Always

[Faith] was something other than an intellectual exercise. There were no words, no lofty concepts, that could take away the pain. Faith was living with the pain.

The Eagle Catcher

One day, she’d find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.

On the Edge

It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?

On the Edge

Amy," Elsie Moore said in her crackling voice, her gaze fixed on Declan. "I want you to get me a new bear. A blond one.

On the Edge

Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring hikers out in the Broken into thinking he was Bigfoot.

On the Edge

This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Connie, giving her thoughts on why Vinnie's hot temper is less than normal, says: "Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning.

Explosive Eighteen

But I don't want to be a vampire drone.' Sophronia winced. 'They'll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions.

Etiquette & Espionage

He can’t ground her if he’s already killed her,” I pointed out when Juliana quoted this to me. “Well, he can, but it wouldn’t have the same impact.

Epic Fail

So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Nadie parece haber caído en cuenta de que si la existencia es absurda, lograr en ella un éxito brillante no tiene más valor que fracasar por completo.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

Eat, Pray, Love

But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it.

Eat, Pray, Love

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …

Eat, Pray, Love

You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will.

Eat, Pray, Love

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

Eat, Pray, Love

I have nothing against any of these terms. I feel they are all equal because they are all equally adequate and inadequate descriptions of the indescribable.

Eat, Pray, Love