Gerta Shino Quotes & Sayings

Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation resembles no book I've read before. If I tell you that it's funny, and moving, and true; that it's as compact and mysterious as a neutron; that it tells a profound story of love and parenthood while invoking (among others) Keats, Kafka, Einstein, Russian cosmonauts, and advice for the housewife of 1896, will you please simply believe me, and read it? — Michael Cunningham

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history. — Roy DeCarava

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros! — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now. — Maya Beiser

The English language is now ours. We have colonized it,too. — Gemino H. Abad

No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me. — Lois McMaster Bujold

In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd. — Mike Mentzer

It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams which give us such worlds of salutary illusion. That is since nothing means anything in itself, we must preserve the proximate and arbitrary background which makes things around us seem as if they did mean something. In other words, we are either Englishmen or nothing whatever. — H.P. Lovecraft

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know." — Edwidge Danticat