Encyst Quotes & Sayings

One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness ... Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. — Ursula K. Le Guin

the punishment inflicted for these peccadilloes. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can't make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time. — April Mae Monterrosa

Anything can happen for some weird reason; yet also, without any reason, nothing at all can happen. — Reza Negarestani

Beauty is there, you just have to look — Bobbie Barker

The doctor unfurled her wings into Maximum Righteousness Mode. The flaming sword was in her hand. She pointed with it like the archangel casting us out of the garden. Get your ass back there! — Daryl Gregory

Silence is golden, but sometimes invisibility is golder. — Hazel Felleman

Everything in me, right down to the pores of my skin, was expressing joy. — Yann Martel

Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse. — Robert Southwell

"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official censors to encyst and segregate and thus neutralize all contrarian forms of seeing and thinking, all (necessarily implicitly) prohibited and repressed ways of exercising disruptive and iconoclastic intuition and intellection (for to analyze and explain these things too openly is to give them publicity and potential cogency when the point is to asphyxiate them). — Kenny Smith

I'm working on a number of different things. I'm working on a couple of TV things and I'm working on a couple of film things too, and they're all very early stages. One of them I'm writing myself, one of them I'm writing with somebody else, and one of them I'm supervising a writer, and they're all sort of coming up at the same time and it'll be interesting to see which one kind of reveals itself first and jumps ahead. — Neil Burger

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side. — E.P. Thompson

The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I love stepping onto the ice knowing I can create whatever I want or am feeling that day. It inspires me to be creative and artistic. It's a great therapeutic outlet to utilize both my heart and body at the same time. — Tara Lipinski

A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul. — Jane Yolen

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul. — Dario Argento