Nonhistory Quotes & Sayings

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose. — Jesse Jackson

It remains the professional Orientalist's job to piece together a portrait, a restored picture as it were, of the Orient or the Oriental; fragments, such as those unearthed by Sacy, supply the material, but the narrative shape, continuity, and figures are constructed by the scholar, for whom scholarship consists of circumventing the unruly (un-Occidental) nonhistory of the Orient with orderly chronicle, portraits, and plots. — Edward W. Said

I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place. — Paolo Sorrentino

Animals are inspirational. They don't know how to lie. They are natural forces. — Charles Bukowski

Indifference

This hate has blossomed like a living love,
grieving, watching its own exhaustion.
It seeks a face, it seeks flesh, as though it were love.

The worldly flesh and the voices that spoke
are dead, all has shuddered away,
all life hangs on a voice.
Days pass in bitter ecstasy to the sad
caress of the voice that returns
and drains the blood from our faces. Not without sweetness
that voice returns to the mind exhausted
and trembling: once it trembled for me.

But the flesh does not tremble. Only love
could set it alight, this hate seeks it out.
All the possessions, all the flesh and all the voices
in the world cannot equal the burning caress
of that body and those eyes. In the bitter ecstasy
that kills itself, this hate still finds
each day a glance, a broken word,
and grasps them, hungrily, like love. — Cesare Pavese

I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written. — James Frey

Your lovin' gives me a thrill
But your lovin' don't pay my bills
I need money - That's what I want. — Berry Gordy

I want to record 'Goyescas' by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager. — Christian McKay

I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed. — Bill Skarsgard

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. — Aristotle Onassis

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it. — Bill Watterson

Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

And I know
The scariest part is letting go
Cause love is a ghost you can't control — Christina Perri

In sharp contrast, the blessings are speeches of new energy, for they promise future well-being to those who are without hope. In the deathly world of riches, fullness, and uncritical laughter, those who now live in poverty, hunger, and grief are hopeless. They are indeed nonpersons consigned to nonhistory. They have no public existence, and so the public well-being can never extend to them. But the blessings open a new possibility. So the speech of Jesus, like the speech of the entire prophetic tradition, moves from woe to blessing, from judgment to hope, from criticism to energy. The alternative community to be shaped from the poor, hungry, and grieving is called to disengage from the woe pattern of life to end its fascination with that other ordering, and to embrace the blessing pattern. — Walter Brueggemann

Be direct and sure of the path you tread, but not so sure that you pass the paths better suited to your feet, brother. — Erica Cameron