Forgather Quotes & Sayings

[T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites. — Yann Martel

I tell her that the best thing to do when you fall is to get up,
And she is up, so she's moving in the right direction. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense. — Joanna Scott

I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why. — Ellen Hopkins

Jesus Christ is better than a best friend — Osunsakin Adewale

Dean's California
wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors. — Jack Kerouac

Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation. — Marianne Williamson

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago. — Andrew Denton

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me. — Judith Martin

Life is, in its very essence and character, a terrible mystery - this whole business of living by killing and eating. But it is a childish attitude to say no to life with all its pain, to say that this is something that should not have been. — Joseph Campbell

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality. — Eugene H. Peterson

England still will be here without you. — Alan Jay Lerner

Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth. — William Vogt

I'm selling my soul to Hollywood Records. I love you like a love song baby, a sinful, miracle, lyrical. He ate my soul. He's Lucifer. I'm torn I'm selling my soul to the rhythm because I'm become so possessed with the music he plays. I chose a path and I'm not looking back. — Selena Gomez

People believe that when we pass on, our essence is what lights the stars in the universe. — Jennifer L. Armentrout