Brain Busting Quotes & Sayings

Cyclic knowledge is mind - knowledge - however vast and encompassing the mind may be. It is structural knowledge. It is only one mode of knowing; but this mode is all-important in situations where disorder, confusion, and emotional biases prevail. It does not take the place of direct experience, whether at the personal or the spiritual level; but it enables the experiencer to place his experience in a frame of reference which reveals their eonic significance - i.e. the function they occupy within the entire life-span. — Dane Rudhyar

We see God and the devil blaming each other, and cherish the unspeakable belief that both of them are drunk. — Frank Wedekind

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.' — Lorrie Moore

sometimes I wondered if the whole point of their friendship was just to post these images, to prove to the world that they had a bunch of pretty friends. — Jennifer Close

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America ... — Don DeLillo

He hasn't earned your your mercy."
Nessy replied, "Mercy isn't earned. It's given. — A. Lee Martinez

Let judgment be in the courts. This isn't about politics, or faith, or even race. It's about the right to be free from hate. I am convinced that the world doesn't break in the face of its worst possible deed. The world mends itself. — James Patterson

Love is like a pair of polarized sunglasses, making every color seem more vivid, richer, warmer. Without it we stare at the world dull-eyed and flinch at the thought it might remain the same forever. — Carol Vorvain

To be grafted to soul means to be open to the life that pools deep inside you, allowing it to coalesce into a career or other kind of work. — Thomas Moore

The surface is all you get of me. — Gary Hume