Nanakorobi Quotes & Sayings

What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance. — Charles Lamb

I do think that metaphysical exploration is like scientific exploration, in the sense that philosophers and scientists are both developing models of reality, and furthermore that we all rely to a significant extent on the idea that models which provide elegant, simple and satisfying explanations are more likely to be true. — L.A. Paul

Success is like a locked door, to open and get it through, you need to create your own key. — Zeeshan Ahmed

Let Stone be your God and you will find God in the Stone. — Peter Ackroyd

No, precious creature: I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Than you should such dishonour undergo, While I sit lazy by. — William Shakespeare

Few of us ever touch eternity, and if we do, it is not in the ways we expect. — Jordan MacLean

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. — Amy Bloom

Look, let's get one thing straight here. I don't know what went down between you and the asshole and I really don't care. But if we're gonna dance this dance with each other, you're gonna have to stop comparing me to him. I doubt he'd even come close anyway so it's a waste of time. — Jordan Silver

Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that ... But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines ... well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice. — Steve Wozniak

I know my heart will never be the same
But I'm telling myself I'll be okay — Sara Evans

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. — Quentin Crisp

They would sooner be dicing, drinking, and flicking, I don't doubt, but Lord Randyll believes in putting idle men to work. — George R R Martin

The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body. — Myrtle Reed