Orvieto Underground Quotes & Sayings

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality — Richard Dawkins

When we reach our limit, if we aspire to know that place fully - which is to say that we aspire to neither indulge nor repress - a hardness in us will dissolve. We will be softened by the sheer force of whatever energy arises - the energy of anger, the energy of disappointment, the energy of fear. When it's not solidified in one direction or another, that very energy pierces us to the heart, and it opens us. This is the discovery of egolessness. It's when all our usual schemes fall apart. Reaching our limit is like finding a doorway to sanity and the unconditional goodness of humanity, rather than meeting an obstacle or a punishment. — Pema Chodron

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values. — John Ziman

Facts and credibility only support persuasion. — Dan S. Kennedy

Most Tralfamadorians had no way of knowing Billy's body and face were not beautiful. They supposed that he was a splendid specimen. This had a pleasant effect on Billy, who began to enjoy his body for the first time — Kurt Vonnegut

I can't remember a minute since we met when I haven't been in love with you. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have. — Tom Allen

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark. — William McFee

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. — Friedrich Schiller

A text from Rio comes in: I just paid my weed guy with a check. I think I've got the hang of this adulting thing. — Karina Halle

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars. — Frans Lanting

Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being always remote and inaccessible, do not lose their dignity. — Benjamin Silliman

Why is it that, as we lose our loveliness, the sheen of youth, we lose possibility as well? We acquire, but more is vanished than is given, and nothing makes up for the loss of the swallows at the Sherry, or the Victoria diamond, or the nights at Area when your booted feet ground the glass phials of amyl nitrate into the dance floor. — Robert Goolrick

Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business. — Vince Gilligan

She tasted of coffee and day old poetry. — R. YS Perez