Enturbiarse Quotes & Sayings

Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which "you can't tell what is going to happen next." But in some of the most tedious novels ever written you can't tell what is going to happen next--and you don't care a fig what is going to happen next. — Arnold Bennett

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken. — Russell Sherman

Wasn't that what Jesus said: do what I do? He was here as an example for us to follow. Same with all prophets. Didn't the prophets tell us to be like them? That's what's wrong with Christianity. They make Jesus and the prophets into icons, take them off of earth, and put them in heaven to worship them, so they're no longer accessible. You've taken a reality and made it into a worthless idol. Christians talk about the idolatry of other religions, but when they no longer live principles and just worship the people who taught them, that's exactly what they're doing. — Daniel Suelo

Down an alley a washing woman has set out laundry in pans near the rubble of an old high-rise. Another is washing her body, carefully scrubbing under her sarong, its fabric clinging to her skin. Children run naked through the dirt, jumping over bits of broken concrete that were laid down more than a hundred years ago in the old Expansion. Far down the street the levees rise, holding back the sea. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise. — Eugen Herrigel

If we are going to amend the constitution, shouldn't it be to keep the omos-hay from arrying-may? — Jon Stewart

Nothing like the soft touch of a woman. Her smooth skin...or her rough scars. — Brian Katcher

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear. — Lauren Oliver

The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language. — Mary Oliver

I greet you from Smyrna together with the Churches of God present here with me. They comfort me in every way, both in body and soul. My chains, which I carry about on me for Jesus Christ, begging that I may happily make my way to God, exhort you: persevere in your concord and in you community prayers. — Ignatius Of Antioch

Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark. — Leonard Bishop

Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember. — Stephen King