Sedimentation Quotes & Sayings

Were all human beings suddenly 2 become blind, still the sun would shine by day and the stars by night, for these owe nothing 2 the millions who benifit from their light. So were every man on earth 2 become atheist it could not affect God in any way. He is what He is in Himself without regard to any other. To believe in Him adds nothing to His perfections to doubt Him takes nothing away. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment. — Tom Bissell

If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued. — John Holt

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line. — Benoit Mandelbrot

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record." — D. V. Ager

There is an age at which we teach what we know. Then comes another age at which we teach what we do not know; this is called research. Now perhaps comes the age of another experience: that of unlearning, of yielding to the unforeseeable change which forgetting imposes on the sedimentation of the knowledges, cultures, and beliefs we have traversed. — Roland Barthes

You just work through it. You just hang in there. — Gayle Forman

Crystal spheres imprisoning green lizards, salamanders, millefiori bouquets dragonflies, a basket of pears, butterflies alighted on a frond of fern, swirls of pink and white and blue and white, shimmering like fireworks, cobras ready to strike, pretty little arrangements of pansies, magnificent poinsettias ... — Truman Capote

It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people. — Eric S. Raymond

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one. — Philip Glenister

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves. — Lauren Groff

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years. — Libby Trickett