Paravascular Quotes & Sayings

Faith is more basic than language or theology. — Sydney Carter

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. — C.S. Lewis

Each human being has significant potential for light and darkness," Grandpa continued. "Over a lifetime, we get a lot of practice leaning toward one or the other. Having made different choices, a renowned hero could have been a wretched villain. — Brandon Mull

One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a plague of white butterflies in heaven. — Victor Hugo

No fair-minded girl objects to a certain tinge of jealousy. Kept within proper bounds, it is a compliment; it makes for piquancy; it is the gin in the ginger-beer of devotion. But it should be a condiment, not a fluid. — P.G. Wodehouse

That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category. — Martin Sheen

Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [ ... ] The advent of hypertext is apt to make writing much more difficult, not easier. Good writing, that is. — Donald A. Norman

If I find what I like, maybe in about five years we'll be able to afford to build a home in the country. — Kent McCord

That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits. — Andy Warhol

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. — Alexander Pope

Poirot closed his eyes. What he perceived mentally was a kaleidoscope, no more, no less. Pieces of cut-up scarves and rucksacks, cookery books, lipsticks, bath salts; names and thumbnail sketches of odd students. Nowhere was there cohesion or form. Unrelated incidents and people whirled round in space. But Poirot knew quite well that somehow and somewhere there must be a pattern ... The question was where to start ... — Agatha Christie

Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was. — Nick Miller

The three worst places to have an idea are in an office, in a group and in a hurry. — Gordon Torr

The calcium of bones, the keratin of eyelashes, the exhalations of our bodies - all these are reconstituted as carbon atoms, used to make the world anew: the earth, the lilies of the field, the ink of this book. What is can never cease to be. Kenelm found comfort in these alchemists' precepts, touching them again and again like rosary beads. We are all stars, and to the stars we return. — Hermione Eyre