E. M. Crane Quotes

If you have a good date, it's nice to text them afterward to say "thanks." But if they were totally lame, it's fun to text "unsubscribe."

You need a little bit of the crazy to keep things fun.

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitment to the idea.

you can have one of mine," he says. "i'll yank one out right now." no, that won't count. It has to be the lash that naturally falls out. " He gets on his knees and starts looking for my lash.

Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.

A kiss with the right person simply can't be compared to the drudgery of sleeping with the wrong one over and over.

Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.

Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.

I'm going to give the people what they want. Sensation, horror, shock. Send them out in the streets to tell their friends how wonderful it is to be scared to death.

Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need.

Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands.

Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.

What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.

The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power of government to control our lives.

I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake.

Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.

Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books.

I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.

Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.

Great is the rose That challenges the crypt, And quotes milleniums Against the grave.

When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of the ruby and the rose.

The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.

Freedom of choice must be brought to bear upon the US Medical practice.

In a free society men and women should not be prevented by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be effective.

If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.

If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.

I'll always come for you. I'll always find you.

I'm not a baker so I'm not about to sugar coat it for you.

Sometimes, knowing when to let go is just as important as knowing when to hold tight.

The things we should focus on in any life shouldn't be what we've lost, but what we've gained

Everything we'll accomplish, we'll do it together or not at all.

...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms.

You chose me, I chose you. End of story.

I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole from you. And I want it to be something that even a coma can't make you forget.

The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.

The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.

In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned when it is put into pictures.

I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge from philosophy it is a different kind of knowledge.

I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself.

Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically

Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness!

I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear.

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.

I'm not a militant atheist, just an atheist. In fact, in a largely atheist country like the UK I think it's a bit silly to be a militant atheist.

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

Tell her thisAnd more, —That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap his hands with corpsesUntil he stands like a childWith surplus of toys.

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog")