Knowingly Quotes (page 304)
![Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "The awakened and knowing say: body I am entirely, and nothing..."](/pic/380455/600x316/quotation-friedrich-nietzsche-the-awakened-and-knowing-say-body-i-am.jpg)
As a rule, almost all of them are Midwesterners...This area of the country, what are we to say of this area of the country, Ms. Beadsman?...Both in the middle and on the fringe. The physical heart and the cultural extremity. Corn, a steady waning complex of heavy industry, and sports. What are we to say? We feed and stoke and supply a nation much of which doesn't know we exist. A nation we tend to be decades behind, culturally and intellectually. What are we to say about it?
David Foster Wallace
Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much havoc. He's killed Cinna already. Destroyed my home. My family, Gale, and even Haymitch are out of his reach. Peeta's all he has left. "So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sound about a thousand years old when she speaks."Whatever it takes to break you.
Suzanne Collins
Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.
Bill Bryson
![Alice Hoffman quote: "That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you..."](/pic/380394/600x316/quotation-alice-hoffman-that-is-how-you-know-youve-left-childhood.jpg)
I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough."Waiting for perfect love?"No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and throw it out the window. That's what I'm looking for.
Haruki Murakami
![Jack London quote: "I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need..."](/pic/380385/600x316/quotation-jack-london-ill-have-you-know-i-do-the-swearing-on-this-ship.jpg)
![Michel de Montaigne quote: "I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach..."](/pic/380345/600x316/quotation-michel-de-montaigne-i-know-that-the-arms-of-friendship-are-long.jpg)
You don’t know anything, apart from what you read in the paper.”
“You seem to be the only person in the world that the papers get bang to rights. If they say you’ve slept with a fifteen-year-old, you have. If they say you’ve fallen over drunk in the street, you have. They don’t need to invent stuff for you.”
This was actually quite an acute observation. She was right: not once have I been the victim of misrepresentation or distortion. If you think about it, that was one of the most...
Nick Hornby