Nightjar Bird Quotes & Sayings

Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortable as possible? What should a story seek to emulate, Augustus? A ringing alarm? A call to arms? A morphine drip? Of course, like all interrogation of the universe, this line of inquiry inevitably reduces us to asking what it means to be human and whether - to borrow a phrase from the angst-encumbered sixteeen-year-olds you no doubt revile - there is a point to it all. — John Green

It was frightening, though, how little time you got. You only became yourself when you were twenty-three or twenty-four. A few years later, you had an old man's chest hair. It wasn't worth it. — Roddy Doyle

In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history. — Catherine Jinks

I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different. — Liana Liberato

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it. — Vincent Van Gogh

If you wish to find the past preserved, follow the million feet of the crowd. At the worst the uneducated only wear down old things by sheer walking. But the educated kick them down out of sheer culture. — G.K. Chesterton

I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences. — Lisa Kleypas

Physical love is unthinkable without violence. — Milan Kundera

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. — Le Corbusier

I was just peeling some potatoes for dinner and they all looked like crisp white potatoes until I cut them in half. Every single one had a rotten, gray core. [ ... ] I feel like the whole world is black, rotting, and evil. Even when it looks crisp on the outside, that's a lie, because you can't trust anything - on the inside it's nothing like mold. [ ... ] So, see, nothing good is ever going to happen, and anyone who says it is, is lying to you. — Jaclyn Moriarty

Mystery is the soul of existence. — Kedar Joshi

What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Do not limp before the lame, deeming it a kindness. — Kahlil Gibran