Nerone Quotes & Sayings

We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries. — Alan Dean Foster

Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief. — Morris L. West

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower. — Helen Keller

No matter how bad your diet is, no matter how much excess weight you're carrying around, no matter how many food-related mistakes you've made in the past, you can start fresh now. — Travis Stork

What would they say if they knew
I sit for two months
on six lines of poetry? — Lorine Niedecker

And so, as the stars came out, Miles took up his basket and made his way in the moonlight to the river, to the place where he'd hidden the little boat.
It was gone.
No great surprise, really. The region was notorious. Why shouldn't someone steal his boat? He'd return the favor and steal someone else's. Tomorrow.
Tonight, though, he wanted a proper dinner.
He set about fashioning a fishing line. — Loretta Chase

My bandmate once pissed his pants when we were playing in Brazil - but we weren't embarrassed, we were proud. — David Macklovitch

If you don't execute your ideas, they die." - Roger von Oech — Stephen Guise

We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings. — Morris L. West

I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing. — Evelyn Glennie

I was lost a long time, without knowing it. Without the Faith, one is free, and that is a pleasant feeling at first. There are no questions of conscience, no constraints, except the constraints of custom, convention and the law, and these are flexible enough for most purposes. It is only later that terror comes. One is free - but free in chaos, in an unexplained and unexplainable world. One is free in a desert, from which there is no retreat but inward, toward the hollow core of oneself. There is nothing to build on but the small rock of one's own pride, and this is a nothing, based on nothing ... I think, therefore I am. But what am I? An accident of disorder, going no place. — Morris L. West

Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance. — Orrin Woodward

Birthdays are the best thing we can collect: the more birthdays we collect,
the more years we live. — Eraldo Banovac

He turns away and I'm overwhelmed with an echo, with the sense that the words in my mouth aren't my own. But of course they are. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold ... " A warning against the smugness of inherited faith. — Morris L. West

Wine and women bring misery. — Martial

Even in sin, the act of love -done with love- is shadowed with divinity. Its conformity may be at fault, but its nature is not altered, and its nature is creative, communicative, splendid in surrender. It was in the splendor of my surrender to Nina and she to me, that I first understood how a man might surrender himself to God -if a God existed. The moment of love is a moment of union -of body and spirit- and the act of faith is mutual and implicit. — Morris L. West