Claircognizance Quotes & Sayings

I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek. — Yann Martel

Omegas & Alphas

raw & cooked
soft & hard

whole & scrambled
pure & deviled

shirred & coddled
poached & painted

in rebirth baskets
& natal nogs

on our faces
& in our noodles -

eggs are words
& words are eggs

first & last
last & first — Ralph La Rosa

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty. — Sherman Alexie

Otto said: Try to figure out a way to kill us nicely. You can, of course, drop mother into the well, and maybe you could poison me somehow. — Vaino Linna

Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms. — John Robbins

Anywhere where there are humans around is bound for destruction at some point in time, even paradise. — Jim Tan

There's a kind of unfamiliar electricity that goes through her at the nearness of him, and she can't help wondering if he feels it, too. — Jennifer E. Smith

In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing. — Jean Kerr

I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of thinking and feeling-about ourselves, those we love, those we hate, those we realize are hopelessly 'other' to us-are more shaped by Shakespeare than they are by the experience of our own lives. — Harold Bloom

It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's ideas and opinions, you won't have room for your own. — Karen Cushman

Claircognizance is the ability to know without trying. — Lada Ray

The song and the land are one. — Bruce Chatwin

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive. — Ian McEwan