Empalement Quotes & Sayings

No language exists that cannot be misused ... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. — Carl Jung

What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity. — Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

I love it when a plan comes together!
- Hannibal Smith, A-Team — Stephen J. Cannell

To reach satisfaction in all, desire satisfaction in nothing. To come to possess all, desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all, desire to be nothing. To come to the knowledge of all, desire the knowledge of nothing. To come to enjoy what you have not, you must go by a way in which you enjoy not. To come to the possession you have not, you must go by a way in which you possess not. To come to what you are not, you must go by a way in which you are not.
John of the Cross — San Juan De La Cruz

Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and missed the fine hills so much. There is a great peculiarity about the Highlands and Highlanders; and they are such a chivalrous, fine, active people. — Queen Victoria

The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound. — Yelawolf

The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independently of all thinking, and thus antithetical to the sensible world ... The world of thought is the universal, the timeless and spaceless, the absolutely necessary, whereas the world of sense is the contingent, the changing and moving appearance which somehow indicates or symbolizes it. — Robin G. Collingwood

Risk is the salt and sugar of life. — Freya Stark

Um, h-h-hi, Sophie stammered, closing the door behind her. Meeting her gaze were crystal eyes like blue shards of glass. — Jennifer Lane

I'm no genius, but I'm smart in spots, and I stay around those spots. — Tom Watson

I have nothing good besides You. — Anonymous

I always feel, I guess being a product of the movies of the 40s where movies were the greatest things and screens were big and palaces were palaces and stars were larger than life that reality was so much inferior to what we felt was conceivably possible from what we had seen in the movies. — Woody Allen

We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it? — Madonna

Errands of mercy
errands of sin
did you ever think where all the thousands of people you daily meet are bound? — Elizabeth Gaskell