Dorsum Quotes & Sayings

Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed. — James Lileks

If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business. — Michael Ellsberg

We're in this together, until the ocean waves crash on our feet."
"You really paint this Guatala as a paradise."
"If you're there with me, it will be. — Karina Halle

Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed a human? Case proven. — Terry Pratchett

The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it. — Vera Nazarian

No flicker of amusement, no hint of fear. The woman could give Rowan a run for his money for sheer iciness. — Sarah J. Maas

You can't learn to fly if you're not prepared to crash — Joe Brooks

Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one assumes they are too educated to notice the difference. — Kerry E. Wagner

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. — Anais Nin

I think it's totally up to the individual if they'd like a private life or if they'd like to be in the public eye - it's a choice you can make. — Jade Jagger

The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture. — Neil MacGregor

He had not known it was possible to love a little human being as he loved Annie. — Maeve Binchy

There is no more contemptible sound than a gunshot. — Jonathan Heatt

Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past. — David Christian

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last. — George Bernard Shaw