Detrital Quotes & Sayings

Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss. — Tom Robbins

My hand aching because grace wasn't underneath it 3! — Maggie Stiefvater

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It's about getting to a point in your life where you're ready to let go and move on and become the better version of yourself. — Jared Leto

Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. — Margaret Heffernan

We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude. — Alexandre Dumas

When, on a Sunday evening in May 1876, Anna throws herself under the freight train, she has existed more than four years since the beginning of the novel, but in the case of the Lyovins, during the same period, 1872 to 1876, hardly three years have elapsed. It is the best example of relativity in literature that is known to me. — Vladimir Nabokov

To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse. — Adolf Galland

[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it. — Wallace Stegner

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue. — Theodore Dalrymple