Blumar Quotes & Sayings

You're always working at the margin of what you don't understand, that's the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time. — Emmet Gowin

It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the teachers, to build the classrooms, and to attempt to eliminate the effects of past educational deficiencies. It is still another to find ways to feed the incentive to learn and keep children in school. — Robert Kennedy

Queen of Night is as close to black as a flower gets, though in fact it is a dark and glossy maroonish purple. Its hue is so dark, however, that it appears to draw more light into itself than it reflects, a kind of floral black hole. In the garden, depending on the the angle of the sun, the blossoms of a Queen of Night may read as positive or negative space, as flowers or shadows of a flower. — Michael Pollan

To salve the pains of consciousness, some people anesthetize themselves with sunny thoughts. But not everyone can follow their lead, above all not those who sneer at the sun and everything upon which it beats down. Their only respite is in the balm of bleakness. Disdainful of the solicitations of hope, they look for sanctuary in desolate places - a scattering of ruins in a barren locale or a rubble of words in a book where someone whispers in a dry voice, I too am here. — Thomas Ligotti

Sometimes she thought that the people overseas had no room in their heart for Africa, because nobody had ever told them that African people were just the same as they were — Alexander McCall Smith

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more. — Reggie Lee

Although I look really good holding a gun, I can't shoot. I can't shoot anything. I'm the worst shot. — Tisha Campbell-Martin

Ballardian banality comes from not getting the future that we were promised, or getting it too late to make the promised difference. — Warren Ellis

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do - God's purpose is to make us one with Himself. — Oswald Chambers