Metahistory Quotes & Sayings

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach. — Ken Harrelson

What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist. — Gao Xingjian

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse. — Bob Etheridge

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny. — Laozi

P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know. — Boyle Roche

I'm not a lawmaker, but I was thinking that if you have a really loud ring tone, maybe you should be stabbed in the ear? — Demetri Martin

He cleared his throat. "One good thing about the range, Starling, is there's no politics out there." "No?" "You were right to secure that garage up at Baltimore there. You worried about the TV? — Thomas Harris

What if miliseconds influence centuries? — Robert Cowley

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise. — Richard Rolle

It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly. — Richard Bach

I am an anarch in space, a metahistorian in time. Hence I am committed to neither the political present nor tradition; I am blank and also open and potent in any direction.
Dear old Dad, in contrast, still pours his wine into the same decaying old wineskins, he still believes in a constitution when nothing and no one constitutes anything. — Ernst Junger

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months. — Gregory Hines