Overturned Fold Quotes & Sayings

Even in childhood I watched the hours flow, independent of any reference, any action, any event, the disjunction of time from what was not itself, its autonomous existence, its special status, its empire, its tyranny. I remember quite clearly that afternoon when, for the first time, confronting the empty universe, I was no more than a passage of moments reluctant to go on playing their proper parts. Time was coming unstuck from being - at my expense. — Emil M. Cioran

War makes thieves and peace hangs them. — George Herbert

Such a sky. The widest she'd ever seen. Even more than the long bow of the shoreline and the eternal spread of the sea, it was the sky Betsy could not fold into her understanding, the cliffs and hillocks of the land overturned, sculpted into the stony clouds and softened with the promise of light. — Alison Atlee

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. — William Blackstone

The sound of his purging next to me, long and deep and often was like a backbeat throughout the night. He's been wrestling with visions of the spirit world, alien landscapes like inverted Photoshop jungle lakes, plants merging into the sky and insects and beasts alive with the sweat and pulse of life, all of us cuaght up in a genomic swirl. — Rak Razam

We're better'n them all right. We jus' don't always win. — Terry Pratchett

There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are over ... — Guus Hiddink

She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times! — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

That night after my parents had kissed me good night and closed my door, I got out of bed and took from my shirt pocket the three seeds I had carried since we left the ant kingdom. Everything else I'd gathered, I realized, had been either given away or given back. Way back on my closet shelf was a tiny woven Indian basket with a cover. My grandfather had given me this when I was only nine years old, but it had always held some sort of secret for me. Into this basket I put the seeds, and hid it again.
"We'll use them," I told Scuro as I got back into bed. "Just wait. We'll use them."
He sighed and rearranged himself on his rug in the corner. I noticed then that the kitten-a shy little creature only recently come to our household and up till now afraid of everything including Scuro-was curled between Scuro's paws, purring in its sleep. — Sheila Moon

Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it. — Bradford Dillman

I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams. — Jayma Mays

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths. — Jena Malone

Ten milligrams equals one centigram. Ten decigrams equals one gram. Ten grams equals one grampa."
"Keep going ... I can hardly wait to see what comes next ... — Charles M. Schulz

I just sit around at home, and I have nothing to do, so I am on the Internet all the time. — Tila Tequila

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them. — Chrissie Wellington