#rant

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#also #commentary #first #good #guarantee

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#granted #guess #i #people #respectability

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#coherence #disciplines #easily #facts #grant

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#give #menu #metaphysics #page #restaurant

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could. ↗

— Robert Plant

#every #every night #i #immigrant #life

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. ↗

— Plato

#ignorant #knowledge #learning #little #most

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ↗

— Plato

#first #other #protector #root #springs

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#eat #fast #fast food #food #go

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#against #brings #cosmic #everything #god

If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant? ↗

— Pete du Pont

#attacks #coming #could #electronically #government