1myn569697 G Quotes & Sayings

I am thinking of a summer on the Baltic when I was a child: how talkative I was to sea and forest; how, filled with unaccustomed exuberance, I tried to leap over all limits with the hasty excitement of my words. And how, as I had to take my leave on a morning in September, I saw that we never give utterance to what is final and most blessed, and that all my rhapsodic Table d'hote conversations did not approach either my inchoate feelings or the ocean's eternal self-revelation. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly. — Patterson Hood

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are. — Henry David Thoreau

Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes. — Jacques Lacan

Dress you? I'd rather undress you. We don't belong together. But you belong to me. I want you not as you might be. I want you as you are. — Cathleen Schine

A true friend is a friend for whom life is worth living. — Debasish Mridha

One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, creating new possibilities for the future. — Lionel Suggs

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way. — William Boyd

husk or shell that has grown up around a spark of holiness, masking its light" (203): Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005), p. 93. Yiddish's — Diane Ackerman

There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

People looking up at her
at her smooth pretty vivacious face
had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind. — Betty Smith

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal. — Charles Stross

The body she inhabited during the day was not hers but rather a reflection from other people's eyes. — Elias Khoury

You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more your support group dwindles and you start seeing your peers buying houses and getting corporate jobs. So that can be discouraging. — J. Robbins