“I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.” Quote by Cassandra Clare
“Life is fragmentary, and the pattern that creativity can offer is not one that is imposed, not something rigid, but rather something which can reveal the intrinsic patterns of that fragmentation. Things are in a perpetual dance, but there is an order. It's not really random at all.” Life IsOrderCreativityOffersPatternsPerpetualFragmentation Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Bacon is clearly a food made by the Nazis to fatten up Americans. It has no nutritional value, is full of fat, sodium, and nitrates, and is a pathetic type of consumable made from the noblest of creatures.” MadeValuesTypeCreaturesFatsNaziPatheticSodium Author:Andy Rooney
“If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.” IfsGoes OnInternetMets Author:Andy Rooney
“You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.” KnowsYearsPersonsBodySevenCellsSeven Years Author:Jeanette Winterson
“As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.” PeoplePatternsDullBiasedNew Experiences Author:Jeanette Winterson
“People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.” PeopleThinkingWorldMindImportantChoicesCultureNationsThis WorldCorporateRobotsFreedom Of ChoiceCorporate Culture Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.” PeopleThinkingWayMayLongPrinciplesTechnologyModernSurvivalMedicineStartingShopsPairsSupporterGrandparentNew TechnologyDarwinismSurvival Of The FittestModern MedicineFeckless Author:Andy Rooney
“The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.” YearsFirstsMadeFactsUniverseStarsYears AgoConnectedNuclearBillionsAtomsExplosions Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.” WayHelpingSpiritualPoliticalValuesSpiritualityPassingPassingsOrganizedAgendasOrganized ReligionSpiritual ValuesPassing On Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.” PeopleThinkingMenHumansSufferingUnderstandingCreativeConditionsPossibilityParticularGayEmpathyActiveMutualHuman ConditionSolidarityHomophobiaGay Men Author:Adrienne Rich