Sacks Sentence Quotes & Sayings

Invention hovers always a little above the rules. — Mary Oliver

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see ... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world. — Arthur Erickson

She met his gaze over the plums. The point is, we all care, to some degree, what others think of us. — Laura Lee Guhrke

And don't try to make yourself an extended family out of ghosts on the Internet. Get yourself a Harley and join the Hell's Angels instead. — Kurt Vonnegut

The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment. — J. Michael Straczynski

Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself. — Neville Goddard

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Did Lovelace's forces find you? Did Jabor break in?"
He spoke slowly through clenched teeth. "I went to get a newspaper"
This is getting better and better! I shook my head regretfully. "You should leave such a dangerous assignment to people better qualified: next time ask an old granny, or a toddler- — Jonathan Stroud

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward — Patricia Sampson

He has one of the most spacious, thoughtful minds I have ever encountered, with a vast base of knowledge of every sort, but it is a base under continual questioning and scrutiny. (I have seen him suddenly stop in mid-sentence and say, "I no longer believe what I was about to say.") — Oliver Sacks

He felt weighted down by guilt and regret for what might have been his last words to all of them. — Karen Ann Wirtz

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me. — Ludwig Van Beethoven