Lewanika I Quotes & Sayings

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings. — Mary Oliver

About some books we feel that our reluctance to return to them is the true measure of our admiration. It is hard to suppose that many people go back, from a spontaneous desire, to reread 1984: there is neither reason nor need to, no one forgets it. The usual distinctions between forgotten details and a vivid general impression mean nothing here, for the book is written out of one passionate breath, each word is bent to a severe discipline of meaning, everything is stripped to the bareness of terror.
Kafka's The Trial is also a book of terror, but it is a paradigm and to some extent a puzzle, so that one may lose oneself in the rhythm of the paradigm and play with the parts of the puzzle. Kafka's novel persuades us that life is inescapably hazardous and problematic, but the very 'universality' of this idea helps soften its impact: to apprehend the terrible on the plane of metaphysics is to lend it an almost soothing aura. — Irving Howe

If you do not enjoy a moment, you lose it forever. If you enjoy it, it is yours forever. — Debasish Mridha

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service. — Theodore Roosevelt

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up. — Walead Beshty

When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story. — Lynn Flewelling

as if the world was turning, its center shifting swiftly to the point where she was standing, her — Alexandra Engellmann

Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around — Alanis Morissette