Periphescence Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Luce introduced the concept of "periphescence". The word itself means nothing; Luce made it up to avoid any etymological associations. The state of periphescence, however, is well known. It denotes the first fever of human pair bonding. It causes giddiness, elation, a tickling on the chest wall, the urge to climb a balcony on the rope of the beloved's hair. Periphescence denotes the inital drugged and happy bedtime where you sniff your lover like a scented poppy for hours running. (It lasts, Luce explained, up to two years
tops.) — Jeffrey Eugenides

Finally, I've reached the grandfather clock. Its face has no hands, only the words TIME IS, TIME WAS, TIME IS NOT. Highly metaphysical; deeply useless. — David Mitchell

Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office. — Juan Williams

The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy. — Robert Breault

One of history's most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with using any means necessary to take the villains out. — Stephen R. Prothero

Terror washed through him, and then was replaced by a sense of cosmic absurdity. — Stephen King

For me, London is and always will be home. — Clive Owen

'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you had Plato and Aristotle to write about what he had said. I write about them because they didn't write about them. — Francoise Gilot