Letusan Krakatau Quotes & Sayings

Words are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common-sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage in "foreign commerce" on the same level as the others, as the passers-by, who are never dreamers. To go upstairs in the word house, is to withdraw, step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream, it is losing oneself in the distant corridors of an obscure etymology, looking for treasures that cannot be found in words. To mount and descend in the words themselves - this is a poet's life. To mount too high or descend too low, is allowed in the case of poets, who bring earth and sky together. — Gaston Bachelard

It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest; I should for ever dream of you. — Walter Savage Landor

In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation. — Kenneth Eade

In the Middle Age, in Germany, if you wanted to learn addition and multiplication, you could go to any university. But if you wanted to learn division, you could only do it in one place, Heidelberg. This makes sense, since in my theory with Vladimir Retakh and Robert Wilson, addition and multiplications are cheap, but division is expensive. — Israel Gelfand

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham — Barbara W. Tuchman

It's always a man's fault." One — Robert Jordan

But more than anything ... thank you for loving me. Thank you for your dimpled smile and your bottle caps. — Gail McHugh

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. — Eleanor Roosevelt

As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return. — Victoria Aveyard