Scrumiera Quotes & Sayings

Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought. — Thomas Mann

One suggestion is to regard your personality as a pet. It follows you around anyway, so give it a name and make friends with it. Keep it on a leash when you need to, and let it run free when you feel that is appropriate. Train it as well as you can, and then accept its idiosyncrasies, but always remember that your pet is not you. Your pet has its own life, and just happens to be in an intimate relationship with you, whoever you may be, hiding there behind your personality. — Wes Nisker

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. — Jacques Derrida

Flung is too harsh a word for the rush of the world. Blown is more like it, but blown by a generous, unending breath. — Annie Dillard

We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please. — Bertrand Russell

A bottle of gin sat in the center of the table. More emptiness than gin in the bottle. — Colum McCann

I have noticed, especially in Wales, that religious people eat substantially before a service and also as substantially when they come back to supper. I am not sarcastic; it is pure intellectual curiosity. Does listening to the service, the hymns, the sermon, and the praying, create a stomachic void that the worshipper tries to guard against before the service - though ineffectually it seems, judging by the supper afterwards - or is that void created by loss of psychic force through actual worship, the strain of trying to establish connection with spiritual things? — Rhys Davies

We can connect with that openness at any time. For instance, right now, for three seconds, just stop reading and pause. If — Pema Chodron

You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps. — Mark Lawrence