Macroscopic View Quotes & Sayings

It had been a day to die, not because it was a special day but because it wasn't, and every day was a day to die now, and the only question that pressed on them, as to who might be next, had been answered. — Richard Flanagan

And I felt an incredible excitement at being able to witness the love reemerge inside her, because it was a total, prime-of-life love. The kind that could only be possible in someone who was going to die at some point in the future, and also someone who had lived enough to know that loving and being loved back was a hard thing to get right, but when you managed it, you could see forever. Two mirrors, opposite and facing each other at perfectly parallel angles, viewing themselves through the other, the view as deep as infinity. — Matt Haig

If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't change my perception of it, that doesn't change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction. — Aaron D. O'Connell

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths. — Matt Nix

Authors have to help each other out. It isn't a competition; we're all holding hands to cross the street here. — Marie Krepps

eternal blue noon; — Herman Melville

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world. — Plutarch

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. — Publilius Syrus

reading their books on electronic gizmos — Roland Smith

To her lover a beautiful woman is a delight; / To a monk she's a distraction; / To a mosquito, a good meal. It makes the point well: how things seem depends on the lens or filter through which we look at them. — Tara Bennett-Goleman

Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything. — Sam Shepard

Success is not a romantic word, it's an ugly world. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times. — Lauren Willig

I am a big fan of the night shoots, as tough as they are, because they have almost a camping trip feel. — Drew Roy