Quotes of: Napoleon Keyword

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

Eating the Dinosaur

Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).

Eating the Dinosaur

For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

One day I have a revelation. ‘I think we’re actually quite compatible,’ I tell him. ‘You’re irritable, and I’m irritating.

French Children Don't Throw Food

1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.

Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes

The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.

The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us.

Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.

A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl

Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.

Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House

They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!

Generation Kill

The thought that the bullet has already been fired at each of us and it is only a matter of time when it will hit, brings comfort to some and terror to others.

The Good Soldiers

what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

How to Build a Girl

hearing women singing about themselves - rather than men singing about women - makes everything seem wonderfully clear, and possible

How to Build a Girl

In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.

How to Build a Girl

Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

How to Build a Girl