"You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates."

-- Isaac Asimov

#Want Quotes #Reason Quotes #Logical Quotes

“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”

Source : John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.145
“She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there”

Source : Julia Gregson (2010). “East of the Sun”, p.198, Hachette UK
“I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal”
“The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.”
“A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.”
“We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.”
“All men of honor are alone.”

Source : F. Paul Wilson (2011). “The Tomb”, p.125, Macmillan
“As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (â€œThe Face of the Skiesâ€)”

Source : George Sterling (1921). “Sails and Mirage”

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