Arunah Avenue Quotes & Sayings

I once spent a spent a summer selling encyclopedias door to door. — David Liss

The past is useless
to me now:
an old suitcase
with mould in the lining,
heavy even when empty. — Robyn Sarah

I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg.
I Name you Calvin.
I Name you Mr. Jenkins.
I Name you Proginoskes.
I fill you with Naming.
Be!
Be, butterfly and behemoth,
be galaxy and grasshopper,
star and sparrow,
you matter,
you are,
be!
Be caterpillar and comet,
Be porcupine and planet,
sea sand and solar system,
sing with us,
dance with us,
rejoice with us,
for the glory of creation,
seagulls and seraphim
angle worms and angel host,
chrysanthemum and cherubim.
(O cherubim.)
Be!
Sing for the glory
of the living and the loving
the flaming of creation
sing with us
dance with us
be with us.
Be!"
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door — Madeleine L'Engle

The aroma of tea mixed with the scent of old books, leather chairs, and wool from the carpet in a soothing fusion. — Faith Hunter

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect. — E. O. Wilson

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago. — Al Jourgensen

One's associations with people are regulated as much by what they stand for, as by what they are, individual characteristics becoming from time to time submerged in more general implications. — Anthony Powell

You can't change Washington from the inside, you can only change it from the outside. — Barack Obama