Cloudstreet Memorable Quotes & Sayings

promulgation of transfixed senses to circumnavigate total deeds brings forth everlasting preservation with augmented courage — Abdul Rehman

I can't tell you how to live your life," Samuel said, "although I do be telling you how to live it. I know that it might be better for you to come out from under your might-have-beens, into the winds of the world. And while I tell you, I am myself sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining
small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come of age. — John Steinbeck

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be. — Stewart O'Nan

There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had. — Chris Abani

Suck it, Entropy. We have an appointment, my old friend, but not today. — Colson Whitehead

Express gratitude for love, joy, and beauty of life, to expand your happiness. — Debasish Mridha

My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is. — Rebecca Lobo

Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination. Unfortunately, our current culture subscribes to a very narrow definition of truth. If something can't be quantified and calculated, then it can't be true. Because this strict scientific approach has explained so much, we assume that it can explain everything. But every method, even the experimental method, has limits. Take the human mind. Scientists describe our brain in terms of its physical details; they say we are nothing but a loom of electrical cells and synaptic spaces. What science forgets is that this isn't how we experience the world. (We feel like the ghost, not like the machine.) It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art. By expressing our actual experience, the artist reminds us that our science is incomplete, that no map of matter will ever explain the immateriality of our consciousness. — Jonah Lehrer

A burning sense of passion is the most potent fuel for your dreams. — Robin S. Sharma

So let us do as we always have, and always continue to change the way we think, but let us not change that we do think. — W.A. Hoffman

Grinding his teeth to keep from lashing out, Caillen did as instructed. A little belligerently, granted, still he did obey as he'd promised his father he would. But it was hard to sit up straight when what he really wanted to do was give the pompous ass in front of him a goblet enema. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

there - it was evidently stupid, — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wear me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, passion cruel as the grave. — William Shakespeare