Albanian Wise Quotes & Sayings

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. (Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures) — Gertrude Stein

In science too, one dedicates his life to an Albanian snail, another to a virus. Darwin gave eight years to barnacles. And in wise later life, to earthworms. The Higgs boson, a tiny thing, perhaps not even a thing, was the lifetime's pursuit of thousands. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavor, is just a speck in the universe of possible things. And even this universe may be a speck in a multitude of actual and possible universes.
So why not be an owl poet? — Ian McEwan

My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls. — Gunter Brus

The church is in the world the way a ship is in the ocean, and that is the way it should be. But bad things start happening when the ocean gets into the ship. — Douglas Wilson

Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job. — Terry Pratchett

In a futule effort to find the underlying truth of existence, we peer into the farthest reaches of the universe and split subatomic particles into smaller units. However, these techniques will only enable us to see the smallest particles that the prevailing technology affords. It will not help us "see" the reality behind existence, which is information. Since the world of information is zero, even the tiniest particle is larger than zero. If you truly want to know the source of existence, look deeply into your own mind first. — Ilchi Lee

When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong. — Alice Waters

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light. — Wallace Stevens