Auctorieel Quotes & Sayings

I had come looking for a parade, for a military review of champions marching in ranks. Instead I was left with a brawl of ancestors, a herd of dissenters, sometimes marching together but just as often marching away from each other. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time. — Terry Pratchett

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. — Sri Aurobindo

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity. — Ovid

[L]ike people, ideas have social lives. They're one way when they're by themselves, and another when they're surrounded by their peers. Crammed together, they grow more uncertain, more interesting, more surprising; they come out of themselves and grow more appealing, and funnier. You wouldn't want all of intellectual life to be that social--we couldn't make progress that way. But there's a special atmosphere that develops whenever truly different ideas congregate, and, on the whole, it's too rare. — Joshua Rothman

I've driven just about every kind of car there is. — Mario Andretti

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did. — Kathy Valentine

What I want," he said softly, "is to stand in this meadow and walk in the light of the sun. — Orson Scott Card

I am an optimist of the first order. — Alice Waters

The Lady may favor
you, but at least I am in charge of my own destiny. — Priya Ardis

All the chance events of our lives are materials from which we can make what we like. Whoever is rich in spirit makes much of his life. Every acquaintance, every incident would be for the thoroughly spiritual person - the first element in an endless series - the beginning of an endless novel. — Novalis

Every election, Mickey Mouse looks better and better as President. — Duncan Long

And I can't help but feel that Whitman, for all his blustering beauty, might have been just a bit too optimistic. We can hear others, and we can travel to them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system like so many leaves of grass - but the game makes me wonder whether we can really ever fully become one another. — John Green

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel