Matterns Quotes & Sayings

Inquiry is fatal to certainty. — Will Durant

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. — Rumi

Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark matter, perhaps test string theory, find planets which can harbor life, and maybe have Brain 2.0, i.e. our consciousness on a disk which will survive even after we die. — Michio Kaku

Leo and I are kindred spirits
we're cut from the same cloth, — Kate Winslet

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow

His moans become nasty, disgustingly malignant, and go on for whole days and nights. And of course he knows himself that he is doing himself no sort of good with his moans; he knows better than any one that he is only lacerating and harassing himself and others for nothing; he knows that even the audience before whom he is making his efforts, and his whole family, listen to him with loathing, — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history! — Leon Trotsky

Her hair, just long enough now to tie back in a knot, had a coppery sheen, a hint of fire in the darkness. — Philip Sington

It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself - and he never asked anybody else to read to him. — Carson McCullers

Putting black cloths on the hives is for us. I do it to remind us that life gives way into death, and then death turns around and gives way into life. — Sue Monk Kidd