"An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches."

-- James Dyson

#Scratches Quotes #Fists Quotes #Path Quotes

“When there is spirit and light, the dark forces of whatever is hidden and suppressed - like hatred and separation - become more powerful.”
“I never liked that ending either. More love streaming out the wrong way, and I don't want to be the kind that says the wrong way. But it doesn't work, these erasures, this constant refolding of the pleats. There were some nice parts, sure, all lemondrop and mellonball, laughing in silk pajamas and the grain of sugar on the toast, love love or whatever, take a number. I'm sorry it's such a lousy story.”
“you don't deal with time. Time deals with you.”
“They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.”
“Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.”
“And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.”

Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.22, Vintage
“I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.”
“In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.”

You may also like: