Deverry Incarnations Quotes & Sayings

Nature is not on the side of a girl over thirty — Tennessee Williams

Millions of tiny arthropod feet swarmed over me until my entire body was enveloped. They — Inge-Lise Goss

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary. — Thomas Sowell

I heard my blood, singing in its prison,
and the sea sang with a murmur of light,
one by one the walls gave way,
all of the doors were broken down,
and the sun came bursting through my forehead,
it tore apart my closed lids,
cut loose my being from its wrappers,
and pulled me out of myself to wake me
from this animal sleep and its centuries of stone — Octavio Paz

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister

Everybody in my world knew that regular work was only another name for being robbed and dying of boredom. — Sarah Waters