Rufenacht Quotes & Sayings

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed ... — Oswald Chambers

The fundamental thing about human languages is that they can and should be used to describe something; and this something is, somehow, the world. To be constantly and almost exclusively interested in the medium - in spectacle-cleaning - is a result of a philosophical mistake. — Karl Popper

Fiddling with damp tarragon left me so intensely irritated that when I was done I had to stick the ramekin/mise en place bowls back in the fridge and go watch both the episode where Xander is possessed by a demon and the one where Giles regresses to his outrageously sexy teen self and has sex with Buffy's mom, just to get over it. — Julie Powell

The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow. — Frederick Lenz

Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than the fairy tale landscape of the West. Though we have interiors and palaces, we don't have bustling cities, and there isn't the emphasis on the artisan making things. The ambiance from which they were written was an entirely different one. The Arabian Nights comes out of a huge world of markets and trade. Cairo, Basra, Damascus: trades and skills. — Marina Warner

Diamond heists, romance & intrigue feature in Stella di Mare. — Patricia Bellomo

I like the probability of the impossible. — Nicolas Roeg

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman. — Leon Kass

screw the diamonds, they're just dirt with an attitude. — Jack Kerley

If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now — Emily Dickinson

There's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring. — David Sedaris

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster. — Bear Grylls

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun. — Chris Hardwick