Insolidity Quotes & Sayings

It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots, — Gene Weingarten

To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater. — Lenny Bruce

At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn't understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary. — Roberto Bolano

And the speck of my heart, in my shed of flesh and bone, began to sing out, the way the sun would sing if the sun could sing, if light had a mouth and a tongue, if the sky had a throat, if god wasn't just an idea but shoulders and a spine, gathered from everywhere, even the most distant planets, blazing up. Where am I? Even the rough words come to me now, quick as thistles. Who made your tyrant's body, your thirst, your delving, your gladness? Oh tiger, oh bone-breaker, oh tree on fire! Get away from me. Come closer. — Mary Oliver

I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the instability of the physical world impressed him so much that he used to go around in enormous padded slippers for fear he should fall through the floor. — Alan Watts

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography. — Robert Frost

Denmark should be a green and sustainable society with a visionary climate and energy policy ... The answer to these challenges lies in the way we produce and consume energy and in our ability to adapt our society to climate change. — Connie Hedegaard

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future. — Aga Khan IV

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

My mind is very clear, but my heart is unable to understand. — Kim A-joong

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place. — Jami Attenberg

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug. — David Shrigley

Truth will always come to light ...
Words; dedicated to the families of the victims- Malaysia Airlines flight MH17
Day in and day out with the light of the sun -
Night after night with the light of the moon;
Piece by piece, we will come closer to the truth. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

For a moment I wondered if I were not going to
love humanity. But, after all, it was their Sunday, not mine. — Jean-Paul Sartre

As long as you're honest and authentic to yourself and your experience, your art can't be 'shit'. — Myself

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better. — Sarah Jessica Parker