Baron Alexander Von Humboldt Quotes & Sayings

And all the shelves rising up around her like book-lined walls of a fortress, safe in here, always safe in here from the world, guarded by books and all the secrets inside them, all the things hardly anyone else will ever care to learn. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things. — Lorrie Moore

Man is embedded in nature. — Lewis Thomas

He thought how the young are pierced by love, innocent bodies torn and ruined for no reason, save that it suited someone who held them dear. — Joe Hill

The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room. — Brent Sexton

Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat
was, literally, talked into life. — Michael Chabon

How many times in a life does a person get to feel an instant attraction for someone one has just met, the eyes locking, the sudden and overwhelming conviction that this is someone he or she is meant to know? — Louise Doughty

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be. — Frank Herbert

You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. — Gautama Buddha

You're right. I have no heart because I lost it to you. — Susan Wiggs

Live, Love, Dream — Various

I love 'The Omen,' just as a piece of plotting. — Greg Rucka

Jesus. I just lost our bet." "Yes, you did." "Fuck." "If you insist." He pushes away and runs his hand through his hair. — Leisa Rayven

You've gone drinking?" Ashton asked.
"She was quite the lushington the other night. But don't worry, I took her home okay."
"You took me to the basement to go hunting for vicious killer automata."
"Well, yeah, but it was at home. — Lev A.C. Rosen

If I see a phrase that strikes me as ugly, I'll delete it. Or, if I find a way to say something a bit more freshly than it was expressed originally, I'll do it. Ultimately, you want to try to leave behind the best possible paragraph or sentence. — Tim O'Brien