Black Hole Focus Quotes & Sayings

Yet five minutes after she had passed the statue of Achilles she had the rapt look of one brushing through crowds on a summer's afternoon, when the trees are rustling, the wheels churning yellow, and the tumult of the present seems like an elegy for past youth and past summers, and there rose in her mind a curious sadness, as if time and eternity showed through skirts and waistcoats, and she saw people passing tragically to destruction. — Virginia Woolf

It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads. — Flora Thompson

That once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone. — Patricia A. McKillip

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre. — Christopher Eccleston

We can only compromise so much until no solution is reached — Annie Leonard

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone. — Duke Ellington

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. — Russell Baker

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up. — Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar

[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations. — John Carroll

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm. — Joseph Addison

I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker! — Dolly Parton

He would have been far more attractive to her if she could have trusted him. You could not love a man who was always playing hide-and-seek with you; that was the lesson she had learned. — Mary McCarthy

It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family. — Thom Yorke

He thought: so this is what it feels like to love. No logic to it - he barely knew her. But there it was just the same. He'd just met the woman he'd known, somehow, since before he was born. The measure of every dream he'd never dared indulge. — Dennis Lehane

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little. — Jonathan Swift