A4rii Quotes & Sayings

Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes in forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds ... — Algernon Blackwood

The last thing I needed was a parting shot of Derek Bast's face -- God's best endorsement for birth control. — Jordan Dane

If George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it. — Jean Edward Smith

As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes. — Seth Green

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point. — David Foster Wallace

I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better. — Tavis Smiley

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show. — Laurie Anderson

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was. — Tony Judt

There's never a day without a doubt,
where man must think of what is there.
In sight we can only see so far.
In mind- only thought must be our care.
Life cannot see what is ahead of me.
My mind cannot stop for more.
Time does not halt at the flash of red. — Isabel Aanya Leigh

There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.' — Alexander Payne

documents, a glazed expression on his face. — Sean Black

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers. — Dorothy Parker