Himalayan Institute Quotes & Sayings

He knew too what it was to live through a hurricane with the other people of the island and the bond that the hurricane made between all people who had been through it. He also knew that hurricanes could be so bad that nothing could live through them. — Ernest Hemingway,

I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on. — Slavoj Zizek

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths. — Larry Bird

The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked. — Nick Kroll

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway. — Anne McCaffrey

How we all love extreme cases and apocalypses, fires, drownings, stranglings, and the rest of it. The bigger our mild, basically ethical, safe middle classes grow the more radical excitement is in demand. Mild or moderate truthfulness or accuracy seems to have no pull at all. — Saul Bellow

There is a feeble urgency behind all forced mannerisms of finery- haste and pomp cannot coincide.
— Nicholson Baker

And then her envious heart was glad, and as happy as such a heart could be. — Jacob Grimm

She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into the woods. In a weird way, the world seemed to make more sense that way. — Anne Ursu

You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery,
Enters the devil murder. — John Webster

There are "extremists" in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do "free software" any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred. — Linus Torvalds