Cliquish Group Quotes & Sayings

The fact that the Hebrew word 'adam', meaning 'man', is identical with Adam as the name of the father of Seth plays a fundamental role in fusing the three stories (Gen 2:7-3:24, 4:1, 4:25 and 5:1) in one. — Kamal Salibi

I felt wrapped in a fog of dull pain that hurt only enough to remind me that it, too, was without purpose, and there seemed no point to going through the empty motions of breakfast, the long slow drive to work, no reason at all beyond the slavery of habit. But — Jeff Lindsay

Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when you're not looking, it's there, at your front door, on your desk, in the mirror, or not, not any of that, it's the lack of all that. One day, when you are looking, it's not looking, no one is. You lie in your bed and realize that if you don't get out of bed and into the world today, it is very likely no one will even notice. — Charles Yu

Anything dead coming back to life hurts. — Toni Morrison

I wanted him to be a poet. I wanted him to adventure out into the world and learn its ways, not losing himself in the jumble of life but seeing it in the poet's eye, and withdrawing after in the library room where he could write his poems of revelation. He would tell what he had seen. He never wrote a word in his life. But he did see. — Josephine Humphreys

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

But Rabbit wouldn't be soothed, as Ivy couldn't be soothed. — Nalini Singh

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age. — Brit Marling

The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight. — Ai Weiwei

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit. — Yehudi Menuhin

My parents won't let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I'd only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead. — Scott Thompson

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it. — Helen Dunmore

In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres — Margaret Atwood

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor