Rearrangers Quotes & Sayings

Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss. — Joan Didion

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light. In helping others to succeed I shall find my own prosperity. In the welfare of others I shall find my own well-being. I am infinite. I am spaceless, I am tireless; I am beyond body thought, and utterance; beyond all matter and mind. I am endless bliss. — Paramahansa Yogananda

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. — Antonio Porchia

The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed. — Sara Harrison

Hamsters being notorious draggers and rearrangers of stuff they can't eat but feel compelled to fuck with anyway, somehow - and — David Foster Wallace

half of its carbon 14 content decays into nitrogen 14 every 5,700 years, until — Jared Diamond

All theories
like cliches
shot to hell,
all these small faces
looking up
beautiful and believing;
I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe but believe is a
graveyard.
we have narrowed it down to
the butcherknife and the
mockingbird
wish us
luck. — Charles Bukowski

...the naive forms of Christian moral motivation - bare threats of hell and the bribery of heaven - stunt moral growth by ensuring believers remain emotional children, never achieving the cognitive moral development of adults. Psychologists have established that mature adults are moral not because of bare threats and bribes (that stage of moral development typifies children, not adults), but because they care about the effects their behavior has on themselves and others. — Richard C. Carrier

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality. — Marianne Jean-Baptiste

It's the same as saying, you know, "I'll smoke, but that's up to me." Doctors don't recommend it. I don't recommend smoking. It's a bad idea. Smoking or spanking. Bad ideas. — Sean Hannity

Our memory of joys and sorrows is always imperfect, and they become a matter of indifference to us as soon as they are over. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men. — Charles Bracelen Flood

I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation. — Taryn Simon

You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times. — Viggo Mortensen

Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking. — Nayvadius Cash

I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music. — Andrea Bocelli