Klapper Bit Quotes & Sayings

The past is all patterns, and those patterns remain beneath our feet, even as the stars above reveal their own patterns - for the stars we gaze upon each night are naught but an illusion from the past. — Steven Erikson

For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside. — Robert Sommer

People only hurt you when you loved them that way. They took what they wanted and used you up. — Chelsea M. Cameron

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks
Fill us with deeper longing for her word;
She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,
She makes a sweeter music than is heard. — George Santayana

I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind. — Zach Braff

Theater, to me, is always a bigger turn on than film. It's alive. — Nick Offerman

By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine. — Christopher Reeve

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis. — Nick Clooney

You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more closely. What doesn't change are the arms you use to hug with. Those stay the same. — Kyo Maclear

I don't think I'm like Shakespeare. — Joss Whedon

Robin McKinley's 'The Blue Sword' was a defining book of my teen years, and I'd love to have more books like that in the world. — Carrie Vaughn

So long as you tell a story that falls within the fairly generous boundaries of the suspense novel, you're free to make the novel as good as you can. You're allowed to challenge the reader. You can experiment with voice and style. — Rodman Philbrick

Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the 'other' we accused it of being; it never was the primitive, preliminary technology of communication we thought it had to be. Rather, if the whole truth is told, oral tradition stands out as the single most dominant communicative technology of our species, as both a historical fact and, in many areas still, a contemporary reality. The miracle of the flat inscribable surface and Gutenberg's genius aside, even the electronic revolution cannot challenge the long-term preeminence of the oral tradition. ("Introduction" by John Foley) — E. Anne Mackay

In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living. — Robert Kirkman