Befell Define Quotes & Sayings

But you'll come and get me if he wakes up, won't you? Just make something up. Scream out like I've done something wrong. Start swearing at me. Everyone will believe it, don't worry. — Markus Zusak

The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because of its large scale, the hardest to perceive, yet at once the most palpable and atmospherically powerful. Its counterpart is the informalization of spirituality - accompanied by its commercialization in the corresponding subcultures. The threshold values for these two tendencies provide the intellectual landmarks for the twentieth century: the first tendency is represented by sport, which has become a metaphor for achievement as such, and the second by popular music, that devotio postmoderna which covers the lives of contemporary individuals with unpredictable flashes of inner emergency. — Peter Sloterdijk

If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Big-endians and small-endians. — Jonathan Swift

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try. — Marianne Moore

Music is an outburst of the soul. — Frederick Delius

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it. — Neil Gaiman

Ask anybody doing truly creative work, and they'll tell you the truth: They don't know where the good stuff comes from. They just show up to do their thing. Every day. — Austin Kleon

maybe it explains something to you," said marino, who always got impatient with lucy's computer talk. "but it don't explain shit to me. — Patricia Cornwell

What is has been. What will be is no more than a forgotten year striking backward. — Rudyard Kipling

I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over. — Henri Cartier-Bresson