Preproductive Quotes & Sayings

There are times, however, when life becomes a phantom comedy. As if aroused from a dream, we watch ourselves in action and, shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where ARt fits in. All our frenzied nudging and posturing suddenly becomes utterly insignificant; our cozy little nest is reduced to some futile barbarian custom, and our position in society, hard-won and eternally precarious, is but a crude vanity. As for our progeny, we view them now with new eyes, and we are horrified, because without the cloak of altruism, the preproductive act seems extraordinarily out of place. All that is left is sexual pleasure, but if it is relegated to a mere manifestation of primal abjection, it will fail to proportion, because a loveless session of gymnastics is not what we have struggled so hard to master.
Eternity eludes us. — Muriel Barbery

Valentine's Day - a nice holiday because it's the first day of the rest of your wife. — Milton Berle

There may be some who wish that he would have taken the occasion to first comment on the Brexit vote, but they're not going to abandon him. They're not gonna let the media do it. Romney people? The media could separate his supporters from him, but they can't from Trump. They don't understand this yet. They think one of these times when they do a trick like this it's gonna work and they're gonna be able to really harm [Donald] Trump. — Rush Limbaugh

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. — Thelonious Monk

Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born. — Chuck Palahniuk

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know. — Julian Casablancas

She'd always assumed that falling in love would be like getting slammed into a brick wall. That you'd just be going along as usual and you'd get knocked on your ass and think, Gee, I guess I'm in love. But it hadn't happened that way. It had just kind of snuck up on her before she'd realized it. It had happened one smile and one touch at a time. One look. One kiss. One pink cat collar. One pinch to the heart and one breathless anticipation after another until she was in so deep there was no denying it. No turning back before it was too late. No more lying about what she felt. — Rachel Gibson

Suffering builds character. - Miranda Tate — Greg Cox

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You're afraid to do anything but wish for things to happen to you — Danielle Paige

Great fire can follow a small spark: there may be better voices after me to pray to Cyrrha's god for aid - that he may answer. — Dante Alighieri

Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love. — John Ortberg

Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain you've got Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower, which are big buildings, so to speak. — Robbie Kearns

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way. — David Macaulay

Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman. — Diana Wynne Jones

If a man says he will do it, he will. There is no need to remind him every six months.' It — Preeti Shenoy