Multidirectional Instability Quotes & Sayings

The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness. — Maya Angelou

Ever has common decency paved the way to uncommon folly. — Jay Lake

The past is in the past — Idina Menzel

Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them — Plato

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do ... — Marcel Duchamp

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I first tasted under Apollo's lips,
love and love sweetness,
I, Evadne;
my hair is made of crisp violets
or hyacinth which the wind combs back
across some rock shelf;
I, Evadne,
was made of the god of light.
His hair was crisp to my mouth,
as the flower of the crocus,
across my cheek,
cool as the silver-cress
on Erotos bank;
between my chin and throat,
his mouth slipped over and over.
Still between my arm and shoulder,
I feel the brush of his hair,
and my hands keep the gold they took,
as they wandered over and over,
that great arm-full of yellow flowers. — H.D.

I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become. — Paulina Porizkova

Though I can't help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear. — Trudi Canavan

Much of the apparent uniformity of Nature is a uniformity of averages. Our gross senses only take cognizance of the average effect of vast numbers of individual particles and processes; and the regularity of the average might well be compatible with a great degree of lawlessness of the individual. I do not think it is possible to dismiss statistical laws (such as the second law of thermodynamics) as merely mathematical adaptations of the other classes of law to certain practical problems. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

the only way to feel something that you haven't seen in real life is through art. — Joe Hart

Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere force of his personality. He was the most impressive living thing we saw in Egypt, not excepting two Pashas and a Bey. He was engaged with large philosophies, one could see that ... — Sara Jeannette Duncan

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion. — Alan Watts

We would all prefer to see much further ahead. We want the road map and to know the short cuts. But usually we only have enough light for the next step. To get anywhere we must take that. — Tim Costello