Prefiguring Quotes & Sayings

They would carry their books to the woods and read aloud to one another. At picnic lunches near Cooper's Bluff, they recited their favorite poems. "In the early days," Fanny recalled, "we all delighted in Longfellow and Mrs. Browning and Owen Meredith." Later, they turned to Swinburne, Kipling, Shelley, and Shakespeare. The Roosevelts — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford. — John Redwood

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. — Malcolm Bradbury

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing. — Dan Brown

There are stages we all go through when dealing with character deaths. Grief. Anger. Denial. Laughter. Coulson. — Jack Lewis Baillot

Freebase? What's free about it? — Richard Pryor

What voices overheard, flinders of luminescent gods glimpsed among the wallpaper's stained foliage, candlestubs lit to rotate in the air over him, prefiguring the cigarette he or a friend must fall asleep someday smoking, thus to end among the flaming, secret salts held all those years by the insatiable stuffing of a mattress that could keep vestiges of every nightmare sweat, helpless overflowing bladder,viciously,tearfully consummated wet dream, like the memory bank to a computer of the lost? — Thomas Pynchon

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book. — Amos Bronson Alcott

I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined. — Bertrand Russell

The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself. And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it. — Oscar Wilde

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe. — Alain De Botton

Only their efforts to make him talk failed. he would say one word at a time, if pressed, but seemed happier not to and could not be made to repeat a whole line. Gradually, as his family learnt how to anticipate his few needs and how to respond, they ceased to notice his silence -his manner of communication seemed full and rich enough to them: he no more needed to converse than Aunt Mira's cat did. — Anita Desai

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head. — Chuck Palahniuk

Before I made a film, I thought it was easy. — Cate Blanchett

The eyes closed. Cammed each night out of that safe furrow the bulk of this city's waking each sunrise again set virtuously to plowing, what rich soils had he turned, what concentric planets uncovered? What voices overheard, flinders of luminescent gods glimpsed among the wallpaper's stained foliage, candlestubs lit to rotate in the air over him, prefiguring the cigarette he or a friend must fall asleep someday smoking, thus to end among the flaming, secret salts held all those years by the insatiable stuffing of a mattress that could keep vestiges of every nightmare sweat, helpless overflowing bladder, viciously, tearfully consummated wet dream, like the memory bank to a computer of the lost? She was overcome all at once by a need to touch him, as if she could not believe in him, or would not remember him, without it. — Thomas Pynchon

As he slowly climbed the stairs, Cassidy looked upward and vowed in Scarlett O"Hara-like fashion, "As God is my witness, I shall never kick a man who"s got my dick in his mouth again. — Ethan Day

History is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material — Joshua Wolf Shenk

I learned how to scream from Marc Bolan. — Joan Jett

Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring the mysteries of His advent. After His incarnation He is present in a similar way not only to those who are still beginners, nourishing them spiritually and leading them toward the maturity of divine perfection, but also to the perfect, secretly pre-delineating in them the features of His future advent as if in an ikon. — Maximus The Confessor

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone. — John Calvin