Fi Interchiller Quotes & Sayings

Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story. — Palle Oswald

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive. — Aldous Huxley

By now you will not be surprised to learn that Gaston Bachelard had a few things to say about the element of air. In a book called "Air and Dreams". he points out that we categorize many of our emotions by their relative weight; they make us feel heavier or lighter. Perhaps because uprightness is the human quality, we imagine human emotions arranged on a vertical scale from ground to sky. So sadness is weighed down and earthbound. joy is aerial, and the sensation of freedom defies the bonds of gravity. "Air," Bachelard writes, "is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy." Elation, effervescence, elevation, levity, inspiration: air words all, alveolated with vowels, leavening the dough of everyday life. — Michael Pollan

The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about. — Natasha Trethewey

The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any intelligent being. We just happen to be here. That one is willing to live and die in that belief is a very high price to pay for conjecture. — Ravi Zacharias

I don't want him to think I'm crazy, because I'm not. Desperate is what I am. Quietly desperate and insatiably curious. — Alex Adams

And he was hurting. She could see it in the set of his mouth, the darkness behind his light eyes. — Cassandra Clare