Incunabula Quotes & Sayings

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I couldn't help myself. I hauled off and punched him in the face. — Leigh Bardugo

A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world. — Curtis Sliwa

Not for the first time, I wondered if my entire family tree was bat-shit crazy. — Pepper Winters

Cabinet is a conscious, explicit attempt to portray the Doctor himself as myth. "He's a mischief, a leprechaun, a boojum," says one character, bookseller and collector of incunabula, Syme. "The Doctor is a myth. He's straight out of Old English folklore, typical trickster figure really."29 Neither part of an ongoing narrative, nor specifically located within the series' past, Cabinet is in a position to challenge the portrayal of the Doctor. — Anthony Burdge, Jessica Burke, Kristine Larsen

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up. — Miles Davis

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd. — Simon Greenleaf

If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we could banish the likelihood of divorce and unhappiness to a statistically unlikely outcome. — Belinda Jeffrey

It's a hard loss when you lose by one point. — Mariel Zagunis

To see the universe as it truly is, is to see what we call chaos. That which we call order is merely our own apophenia at work. — Joseph Matheny

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. — George Savile

Everyone's mind has sort of a slum division - a flirtatious spot that doesn't give a hoot about how grave a situation is but constantly endeavors to derail more earnest thoughts, almost like a death-wish backseat driver. — Pawan Mishra

I asked for a glass of Chardonnay. And in a 9/11-like twist, they didn't have any. They offered me Pinot. — Amy Schumer

Don't be afraid to be unique. Love yourself before you love another. — Simone Elkeles

AND where did the books go when the world turned against them? When the flames of wrath blackened their pages and erased the words, they fled to find solace and redemption in the dark places of the world.
"They were exiled into darkness so their own light might one day return to illuminate the world. They went underground, literally and metaphorically, so that their haven became the hidden places far beneath the feet of their persecutors.
"Thus was born the Incunabula: it was forged by fire and persecution, to preserve and protect until the book might rise, Phoenix-like, from the ashes of demise. — Mark Cantrell