Cosmogonies Define Quotes & Sayings

I can take so much,
'Till I've had enough. — Christina Perri

I did a lot of trapeze stuff when I did 'Pippin' and continued to do it afterward. Flying is so fun, and I was used to the harness idea, but these harnesses are like intense, full bodysuit things. — Ciara Renee

It is said that once upon a time St. Kevin was kneeling with his arms stretched out in the form of a cross in Glendalough ... As Kevin knelt and prayed, a blackbird mistook his outstretched hand for some kind of roost and swooped down upon it, laid a clutch of eggs in it and proceeded to nest in it as if it were the branch of a tree. Then, overcome with pity and constrained by his faith to love all creatures great and small, Kevin stayed immobile for hours and days and nights and weeks, holding out his hand until the eggs hatched and the fledging grew wings, true to life if subversive of common sense, at the intersection of natural process and the glimpsed ideal, at one and the same time a signpost and a reminder. Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. — Seamus Heaney

It was like something lurking in the darkness within him ... There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then being silent. — D.H. Lawrence

Passion gives me moments of wholeness — Anais Nin

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. — Mao Tse-tung

I believe dreams connect us to our ancestors and it is through creativity that we can tap into this in the conscious state. Creativity is a sort of trance that we have as artists that erases time and space. — Lorin Morgan-Richards

It turns out that when there is some conspicuous gap or contradiction at the center of someone's existence, there is probably a very specific, obvious reason for it, and the reason you're avoiding confronting it directly is that it's something you don't want to know. — Tim Kreider

I find my chances for success improve when I associate with a few talented people as opposed to a plethora of mediocre ones. — Jeffrey Fry

A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you. — Benjamin Franklin

In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined. — Robert Metcalfe

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame. — Chris Pine

Crawford saw that in this place Starling was heir to the granny women, to the wise women, the herb healers, the stalwart country women who have always done the needful, who keep the watch and when the watch is over, wash and dress the country dead. — Thomas Harris