Corwd Quotes & Sayings

Tomorrow, Reader and Other Reader, if you are together, if you lie down in the same bed like a settled couple, each will turn on the lamp at the side of the bed and sink into his or her book; two parallel readings will accompany the approach of sleep; first you, then you will turn out the light; returning from separated universes, you will find each other fleetingly in the darkness, where all separations are erased, before divergent dreams draw you again, one to one side, and one to the other. But do not wax ironic on this prospect of conjugal harmony: what happier image of a couple could you set against it? — Italo Calvino

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. — Richard M. DeVos

7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. — Anonymous

The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things that the physical mind and body cannot. — Frederick Lenz

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors. — Helmut Newton

To judge religion we must have it
not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder. — George MacDonald

I learned much from Crispin, though a lot of the things he went on about passed over my head. But he was one of those teachers who, by a kind of osmosis, helped you discover the quantity of areas in your life in which you are still so ignorant as not to have even considered forming a wrong opinion. — Miguel Syjuco

We shall advance more by contemplating the Divinity than by keeping our eyes fixed on ourselves, — Teresa Of Avila

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs. — Harold E. Varmus

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music. People corwd around the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul. — Soren Kierkegaard

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications. — Donald A. Norman

Show me life as I've learned it:blood and guts,violence and sex. — Charlee Jacob

But don't you understand?' she said urgently. 'The demon was hiding all the way down in sublevel three. — Edward Cox

Jen's Mum Will Write
Jen's mum writes advertising copy.
She specializes in white goods:
washing machines, dryers, fridges,
freezers, dishwashers.
She hates these appliances
hulking
in corners,
power-hungry and fractious.
One day, she will have a wood stove,
and she'll write about things that matter-
she will write about birth and death,
about love and the absence of love,
about fathers and children,
about mothers and daughters,
about lovers and friends.
She'll write about the whole goddamn
wonderful, awful business
of loving and being loved — Margaret Wild

When doing a job - any job - one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever. — Hyman G. Rickover