Eupalinos Quotes & Sayings

I think of the presence and of the habits of mortals in this so fluid stream, and reflect that I was among them, striving to see all things just as I see them at this very moment. I then placed Wisdom in the eternal station which now is ours. But from here all is unrecognizable. Truth is before us, and we no longer understand anything at all. — Paul Valery

She was forced to face how cold and unlike her fantasy her own marriage was? Or did she suddenly just get tired of living this long-ass life? Joella — Dennis Lehane

I would hear the song of the columns and visualize in the pure sky the monument of a melody. — Paul Valery

I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise. — Boy George

Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires. — Simone De Beauvoir

O thoughtful waste of my days! What an artist I have destroyed! — Paul Valery

What soul would hesitate to turn the universe upside down in order to be a little more itself? — Paul Valery

He stops to look at a garbage can. He realizes the garbage can will never be his friend and cannot help him. So he wanders away. — Noah Cicero

This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve the power of the mind. — Paul Valery

I want to stay hungry. I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less. — Alexis Ohanian

If no one on this planet ever loves you, I always will. — C.J. Reid