Nonlinearity Journal Quotes & Sayings

When I come over the top of the dune I see the ocean and I feel like I'm seeing it for the first time.
Today it's blue, straight and simple. Raw blue. — Kirsty Eagar

You don't have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one.
-Henrietta Barrett, (Minx, Splendid Trilogy book #3) — Julia Quinn

You have a chance at the rest of your life. And you need to decide how to use it. — Lilo Abernathy

What is music? What does it do to us? And why does it do to us what it does? People say that music has an uplifting effect on the soul: what rot! It isn't true. It's true that it has an effect, it has a terrible effect on me, at any rate, but it has nothing to do with any uplifting of the soul. Its effect on the soul is neither uplifting nor degrading - it merely irritates me. — Leo Tolstoy

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either. — Ricky Gervais

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it. — Abdullah Ibn Al-Mubarak

The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge. — Bruce Lee

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. — John Milton

I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane. — Stephenie Meyer

That which isn't love, isn't god. — John K. Brown

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books. — Edward Abbey

I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did. — David Lee Roth

We start off confused and end up confused on a higher level. — Alan Chalmers