Andernfalls Quotes & Sayings

Because a lake is conceived as having only two primary dimensions, you can't swim inside the lake, though that would seem to make geometric sense. Lederer asks why we say that something can be underwater or underground even though it's surrounded by, not beneath, the water or the ground. It's because water and ground are conceived as 2-D surfaces, not 3-D volumes, geologically improbable though that is. The dimensionality of an object is also the aspect of its geometry that modifiers "see" when they combine with it in a phrase. A big CD, for example, has to have an above-average diameter, not an above-standard thickness (that could only be a thick CD), and a big lake has to be one with an unusually large area, regardless of its depth; it can't be a few yards wide and a mile deep. — Steven Pinker

I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. — William Eggleston

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry. — John Hagee

I write to understand what I know. — Kamand Kojouri

After a breakup there's a momentary relief that you're free again. But that's quickly eclipsed by all the good memories you had together and the realization that there won't be any more of them. — Daria Snadowsky

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it. — Tricia Helfer

So, you reap souls and crush hopes? Is that part of the job, or just a service you offer for free? — Rachel Vincent

The walls of hell are coated with arrogance, and the floor is covered with pride. — T.A. Cline

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. — C. G. Jung

Above all, practice being loyal to your Soul. — Roger Delano Hinkins