Paratexte Quotes & Sayings

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered? — Haruki Murakami

As the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced and ran upon the beaches. Then that same impulse to flight seized upon them too. Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill themselves of motion before winter came. — Daphne Du Maurier

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them. — Mortimer J. Adler

Hope was a powerful thing. Difficult to risk. — Therese Walsh

I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker. — Jon Oringer

Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape. — Julia Cameron

Don't allow your emotions to get in the way of clearheaded decisions about what's best for you. — Ken Weber

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women. — Peter Beard

And that night she dreamed in French. — Erica Bauermeister

When words run dry,
he does not try,
nor do I.
We are on par.
He just is,
I just am
and we just are — Lang Leav

Focus on what you can do rather than stress about what you have no control over. — Catherine DeVrye

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963] — John F. Kennedy

President Bush deliberately did not apologize for things and that's because advisers around him, including those there, felt that the press corps would jump on that and down his throat in a way that he couldn't recover from. So, especially on the war he was very careful on that line. — David Gregory

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest. — Henry Miller

Can a robot be brave? Can it selflessly sacrifice? Can a robot, trained to identify and engage targets, have some sense of ethics or restraint? — Eric Schmidt