Idium Quotes & Sayings

Read a verse of Homer and you can walk the walls of Troy alongside Hector; fall into a paragraph by Fitzgerald and your Now entangles with Gatsby's Now; open a 1953 book by Ray Bradbury and go hunting T. rexes. Ursula Le Guin said: "Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time," and she's right, of course. The shelves of every library in the world brim with time machines. Step into one, and off you go. — Anthony Doerr

One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery. — Anais Nin

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. — William Wycherley

The good thing about kids is that they'll tell you the truth, straight-up, no strings attached, no holds barred honesty. The bad thing about kids is that they'll tell you the truth, straight-up, no strings attached, no holds barred honesty. — C.M. Stunich

I'm not a control freak - I'm a control enthusiast. — Joss Whedon

Every moment before this one depends on this one. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Q: Why did the teacher jump into the lake? A: She wanted to test the waters. — Scott McNeely

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. — Edgar Fiedler

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation. — Rose Byrne

Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks. The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one's property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of the pillage. — Walter E. Williams

Jutta drags herself closer; she watches her brother with outsize eyes. A piano chases the violins. Then woodwinds. The strings sprint, woodwinds fluttering behind. More instruments join in. Flutes? Harps? The song races, seems to loop back over itself. "Werner?" Jutta whispers. He blinks; — Anthony Doerr

Giving back with love is our duty. — Debasish Mridha

What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go. — Porfirio Diaz

If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil. — Eliphas Levi