Koninck The Astronomer Quotes & Sayings

You fucked-up hunk. — James Purdy

Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I've loved her ever since. — John Dufresne

I prefer eating to cooking. — Sania Mirza

Christ is the ground of our masculinity. He took Adamic humanity into the grave with him, and emerged with a new way to be human, and a renewed way of being a man. — Joe Rigney

I had worked and waited for this day. In solving this mystery I had also proved something, at least to myself, and I finally knew what real research would feel like. But as satisfying as it was, it still stands out as one of the loneliest moments of my life. On some deep level, the realization that I could do good science was accompanied by the knowledge that I had formally and terminally missed my chance to become like any of the women that I had ever known. In — Hope Jahren

They say that love conquers all. They're wrong, Keller thinks. Hate conquers all. It even conquers hate. — Don Winslow

Perhaps the essence of tradition, it's ultimate justification, is to comfort, to bring a small measure of dreams, a brief instance of illusion, to a moment when every real avenue of escape is cut off, when there is no longer any recourse. — Saul Friedlander

I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're looking into the void. We thought that we were liberating people from oppressive cultural circumstances, but we were, in fact, taking something away from them. We were killing off civility and concern. We were undermining all those little ties of loyalty and consideration and affection that are necessary for human flourishing. We thought that tradition was bad, that it created hidebound societies, that it held people down. But, in fact, what tradition was doing all along was affirming community and the sense that we are members of one another. Do we really love and respect one another more in the absence of tradition and manners and all the rest? Or have we merely converted one another into moral strangers - making our countries nothing more than hotels for the convenience of guests who are required only to avoid stepping on the toes of other guests? — Alexander McCall Smith

It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when
there is no end in sight. — Shaun McNiff

It's 45 minutes after the game right now and I still don't want to take this jersey off. That's because I know that when I do it'll be for the last time ... — Brian O'Driscoll

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it. — Amber Tamblyn

History is entirely created by the person who tells the story. — Lin-Manuel Miranda