Burghart Turner Quotes & Sayings

The categories that a reader brings to a reading, and the categories in which that reading itself is placed - the learned social and political categories, and the physical categories into which a library is divided - constantly modify one another in ways that appear, over the years, more or less arbitrary or more or less imaginative. Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion. — Alberto Manguel

In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it. — Bear Bryant

On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight into the kitchen, washing up the morning dishes she'd ignored, then getting dinner started. She measured out the nightly cup of rice, letting it soak in a pan on the counter. She peeled onions and potatoes and picked through lentils and prepared another night's dinner, then fed Bela. She was never able to understand why this relatively unchallenging set of chores felt so relentless. When she was finished, she did not understand why they had depleted her — Jhumpa Lahiri

Getting shot hurts. Still my fear was growing because no matter how hard I tried to breath it seemed I was getting less & less air. I focused on that tiled ceiling and prayed. But I realized I couldn't ask for Gods help while at the same time I felt hatred for the mixed up young man who had shot me. Isn't that the meaning of the lost sheep? We are all Gods children & therefore equally beloved by him. I began to pray for his soul and that he would find his way back to the fold. — Ronald Reagan

I've said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex. — Stephen Colbert

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men. — Larry McMurtry

The truth of God's Word cannot be subject to the puny light of man's self-centred reason — Graeme Goldsworthy

Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad. — Vincent Van Gogh

You have played,
(I think)
And broke the toys you were fondest of,
And are a little tired now;
Tired of things that break, and
Just tired.
So am I. — E. E. Cummings

He's too short, he's too ... tall, he's ... just not going to work. — Ed Wood

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. — Ted Kulongoski

I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting ... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write. — David Duchovny

Take a couple of days by yourself and rent a nice cabin in some nice, happy place. Stay a day or two and meditate and take walks in areas that feel good to you. Find out who you are again. Remember. — Frederick Lenz

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear. — Michelle Moran

Sometimes you do have to fight. Where that's true, you should fight and win. — Peter Thiel