Bangau Dan Quotes & Sayings

Even a very small effect sometimes requires profound changes in our ideas — Richard Feynman

I shudder at the image they would piece together. — Roger Vadim

We can't take pleasure in a work of art, not in good conscience, without accepting the implicit intention of the artist to please us. — Michael Chabon

I'll always love you like a new favorite song. — A.R. Wise

The word "ungodly and word-group" in Jude...It describes, not theoretical atheism, but practical godlessness. — Richard Bauckham

In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence. — Barbara Tuchman

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. — D.H. Lawrence

If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot. — Chris Bonington

A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of the lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour. — Katherine Dunn

She's there every day,' the writer says. 'Every time I'm about to sit down at my desk I feel the need to look at her. Who knows what she's reading? I know it isn't a book of mine, and instinctively I suffer at the thought, I feel the jealousy of my books, which would like to be read the way she reads. I never tire of watching her: she seems to live in a sphere suspended in another time and another space. — Italo Calvino