Quotes of: Orwell Keyword

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Lewis Grizzard

Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things.

Tina Brown

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

Will Shetterly

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends.

Jesus Land

Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.

The Romantics

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

The Spellmans Strike Again

You'll have to give me a minute here. Gravity's a real bitch this morning. Ian to Kori

Shadow Bound

Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.

The Most Dangerous Game

Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.

Mornings in Jenin

And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace

New and Selected Poems, 1923-1985

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

The Nicomachean Ethics

Ando como el que va por su destino oyendo un clima oscuro de relojes, de manos, de preguntas, de papeles, de ensangrentados cuervos y cordeles.

Los espacios cálidos

Is it beautiful?” “Really weird. But don’t get hung up on the angels. They’re mostly assholes.

Something More Than Night

Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.

Saints at the River

Once you’re on the pleasure express, it’s hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.

The Pleasure Express

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

Alafair Burke

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Aristotle

The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.

Barton Gellman

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

Binyavanga Wainaina