Chronically Rara Quotes & Sayings

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it. — J. M. W. Turner

If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

My favorite genre is Beautifully Written Books of Any Genre. Could we make that a genre? — Kristin Cashore

Even the word 'science' comes from an Indo-European root meaning 'to cut' or 'to separate.' The same root led to the word 'shit,' which of course means to separate living flesh from nonliving waste. The same root gave us 'scythe' and 'scissors' and 'schism,' which have obvious connections to the concept of separation. — Neal Stephenson

Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good luck to Ben Affleck. But, you know who would have made a great Batman? Alec Baldwin in the '80s. — Quentin Tarantino

Germany, in the summer, is the perfection of the beautiful, but nobody has understood, and realized, and enjoyed the utmost possibilities of this soft and peaceful beauty unless he has voyaged down the Neckar on a raft. The motion of a raft is the needful motion; it is gentle, and gliding, and smooth, and noiseless; it calms down all feverish activities, it soothes to sleep all nervous hurry and impatience; under its restful influence all the troubles and vexations and sorrows that harass the mind vanish away, and existence becomes a dream, a charm, a deep and tranquil ecstasy. How it contrasts with hot and perspiring pedestrianism, and dusty and deafening railroad rush, and tedious jolting behind tired horses over blinding white roads! — Mark Twain

Whoever you are and wherever you come from, you grew into your present shape and form in the garden of your early childhood. — A.S.A Harrison

To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life. — Rumi

I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star. — Landon Donovan

Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid. — Holly Black

Sometimes the things we need most in our lives are the things we don't." -LB — Logan Black

I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I didn't have that much time. — Steven Wright