Nonstandard Measurement Quotes & Sayings

If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life. — John Claypool

The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature. — Paul Johnson

The number one advice I give to my students is to be a culture creator, not a culture consumer," he continued. "You have to have time to create, and to create, you have to get rid of those things that steal your time. TV is the great time-stealer in American life. — Rod Dreher

I never dreamed I'd owe my life to such an appalling article of clothing, — Ransom Riggs

If you have a bright idea with such significance, don't pause but push, play and display that concept, it will be recognized or be seen somehow and it will not be forsaken.
( Taken from my forthcoming book " Ency Bearis' Ameliorated Poems" ) — Ency Bearis

Even when the band got back together in 2008, New Kids fans knew I was gay. Everyone did. — Jonathan Knight

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone. — Susan Sontag

I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them. — Danielle Dutton

One of life's coolest treasure is discovering your purpose. — O. Stephen Peart