Ostati Zi Quotes & Sayings

The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality. — Lewis Mumford

Having set its mark on the generation before Cocteau's, symbolism expressed a form of inner dissidence confronting the narrow-minded materialism and utilitarian obsession of the industrial revolution, and hence a reaction to triumphant naturalism, in literature at least. Nourished by medieval, Renaissance, and Romantic art, symbolism, probably the last great backward-looking movement hatched in the West, had given rise to a desire to explore the secrets of the world and the confines of the soul. Beyond its androgynous Mercuries, its pale Narcissuses, and its Orpheuses borne by rosaries of angels, it gave rise to a whole misty alchemy wherein some found their way into esotericism and even into the religious, since the Universe was only the symbol of another world into which entrance was gained not only through poetry, spiritualism, dreams, and the Ideal, but also via the play of analogies and the study of ciphers. — Claude Arnaud

We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration. — David Richo

Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way of warm things than are needed by even an arctic-bound knitter. Knitting breeds generosity, true ... but perhaps in a hurry to avoid burying ourselves in hand-knits. There are only so many scarves one knitter can use. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The life of an adventurer appeared to consist of roughly six parts boredom to one part stark terror, or so it seemed to Jig. — Jim C. Hines

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher

I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner. — Tom Stoppard

Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she creates an alley, a neighborhood, a history that is as rich and tragic as any Shakespearean tale. — Walter Mosley

My entire life can be summed up in one sentence: "Well, that didn't go as planned. — Darynda Jones

They believe if employees are treated right and well compensated, they will be loyal to the company. A loyal employee is worth his or her weight in gold. — Serena Simpson

Whenever he gives advice it is always something as startling as an epigram, and yet as practical as the Bank of England. — G.K. Chesterton

What was your name again?"
"Still Eve."
"No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right. — Rachel Caine

Expectations have a way of being fulfilled. — Judith Rodin

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. — Ben Nicholson

The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck. — Stephenie Meyer