Chukotka Quotes & Sayings

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all. — Karl Rahner

Sometimes she wished she could eat herself. She'd swallow everything - her soiled blue dress, the shackles on her wrists, her puffy face. If she could eat herself up, there'd be no trace left of her or the mistakes she had made. — Marie Rutkoski

When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt,
pain itself will crack the rock and Ah!
Let the soul emerge ... — Rumi

I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day. — Andrew Sullivan

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death. — Karl Marlantes

The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land. — Alex Shoumatoff

I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies. — P. J. O'Rourke

We both [with Suzanne Collins ] felt strongly that you wouldn't want to age up the characters, no matter the age of the actors playing the roles. They should be playing the age that they are in the [Hunger Games] books. It would let people off the hook, if you said, "Well, instead of 12 to 18, why don't you make them 18 to 25 or 16 to 21?" If you don't stay true to the horror of the fact that they are 12 to 18, you're not doing justice to the book. — Nina Jacobson

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me. — Philip Seymour Hoffman