Invisible Man Tod Clifton Quotes & Sayings

I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it. — Mary Robinette Kowal

Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court's. Books ruled out lives. They were our demi-gods. — Nick Bantock

If you have difficulty reaching your goal, keep the goal, but change your strategy. — Ray Long

It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls. — Arthur Schopenhauer

All is but illusion and disaster. — Voltaire

I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even. — Sue Monk Kidd

The Kissing Game goes like this, Shortcake. Press, retreat, tilt, breathe, repeat. Use your hands to angle just right. Loosen up until it's a slow, wet slide. Hear the drum of blood in your own ears? Survive on tiny puffs of air. Do not stop. Don't even think about it. Shudder a sigh, pull back, let your opponent catch you with lips or teeth and ease you back into something even deeper. Wetter. Feel your nerve endings crackle to life with each touch of tongue. Feel a new heaviness between your legs. The aim of the game is to do this for the rest of your life. Screw human civilization and all it entails. This elevator is home now. This is what we do now. Do not fucking stop. He — Sally Thorne

Given eternity in which to work, everyone would eventually stumble into the abyss, just as all matter would eventually be swallowed by black holes. — Roger Williams

James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which are perhaps the last test of a superior intelligence. He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it. [ ... ] In England, ideas run wild and pasture on the emotions; instead of thinking with our feelings (a very different thing) we corrupt our feelings with ideas; we produce the public, the political, the emotional idea, evading sensation and thought. [ ... ] James in his novels is like the best French critics in maintaining a point of view, a view-point untouched by the parasite idea. He is the most intelligent man of his generation.
(Little Review, 1918) — T. S. Eliot

You threw him into space?" "Yup." "And he didn't die?" "We only threw him out a little bit." Marce — John Scalzi

Lies are so suburban...But murder is nice and clean. — Carole Morin

We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs. — George W. Bush

Some people have no business attending a dignified tea. Gawking as if I belong in a zoo, when they're the ones who have all the manners and the fashion sense of a monkey. — A.G. Howard

You are your art
Your are your song
You are your craft.
You are all the immaculate designs of which you dream; — Priscilla Koranteng

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe