Lullingly Quotes & Sayings

Suffering is part of the divine idea. — Henry Ward Beecher

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That's probably as close to immortal as we'll ever get. — David Foster Wallace

Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew. — Diane Duane

If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics. — Nathan M. Pusey

[My mom] worries about me going and taking drugs, whereas my dad advises me on what drugs to take and what ones not to take. So, they're very different. — Charli XCX

He danced across my heart like a pirate,
Constantly discovering my secrets,
Turning over every hidden treasure,
Drowning me in his fantasy. — Tanzy Sayadi

By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself. — Juan Felipe Herrera

Emerson writes that "no one expects the days to be gods." But now, as time flies and a baby will grow in a place of my choosing, I know. The days are gods. They are each unrepeatable and each a lesson in scope and wholeness, each worth honoring. I can hold and turn these days, consider their resonance, dim and bright moments, sound the depth and know the lullingly measured length. And know that for the time being my memories, and the days in which they are created, are not the only ones of which I'm in stewardship. — Liz Stephens

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of. — Patti Smith

Weightlessness makes astronauts lose taste and smell in space. In the absence of gravity, molecules cannot be volatile, so few of them get into our noses deeply enough to register as odors. This is a problem for nutritionists designing space food. — Diane Ackerman