Deken Haken Quotes & Sayings

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so. — Randall Jarrell

It's like when you put instant rice pudding mix in a bowl in the microwave and push the button, and you take the cover off when it rings, and there you've got ricing pudding. I mean, what happens in between the time when you push the switch and when the microwave rings? You can't tell what's going on under the cover. Maybe the instant rice pudding first turns into macaroni gratin in the darkness when nobody's looking and only then turns back into rice pudding. We think it's only natural to get rice pudding after we put rice pudding mix in the microwave and the bell rings, but to me, that is just a presumption. I would be kind of relieved if, every once in a while, after you put rice pudding mix in the microwave and it rang and you opened the top, you got macaroni gratin. I suppose I'd be shocked, of course, but I don't know, I think I'd be kind of relieved too. Or at least I think I wouldn't be so upset, because that would feel, in some ways, a whole lot more real. — Haruki Murakami

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream! — Leon Bourgeois

When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly. — Frankie Avalon

His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright. — William Wordsworth

whatever you're learning, see whether you can make a metaphor to help yourself understand the most difficult topic - you'll be surprised at how much it can bring the key idea to life. — Barbara Oakley

You should sit," I tell Cal, finally growing tired of his vengeful intensity. "Unless you plan on wearing your way through the floor? — Victoria Aveyard

Power floats like money, like language, like theory. — Jean Baudrillard

Hugging makes heart tender. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's the natural trajectory of a writing career that a writer becomes better at being herself. — Amy Hempel

Nansen had moreover introduced a startling new concept into Polar exploration. He had deliberately cut off his lines of retreat. His route was from the desolate east coast to the inhabited west. This was not bravado, but calculated exploitation of the instinct of self-preservation. It drove him on; there was no incentive to look back. — Roland Huntford