Semeia Journal Quotes & Sayings

Anger clouded judgement. — Michael Scott

The new cosmic story emerging into human awareness overwhelms all previous conceptions of the universe for the simple reason that it draws them all into its comprehensive fullness. Who can learn what this means and remain calm? — Brian Swimme

It's 85 million dollars and they got to be really careful because they are going to need me. — Terry Gilliam

If the Lord is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all. — Joseph Stephen

Didacticism is the death of art ... — Alice Dunbar Nelson

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object. — Samuel R. Delany

And he looked at her with open eyes, the bone of his heavy brow a bastion above, the flesh of his face wealthy below, and in those eyes she glimpsed an imperium, a mechanism of rule building itself from the work of so many million hands. Remorseless not out of cruelty or hate but because it was too vast and too set on its destiny to care for the small tragedies of its growth. — Seth Dickinson

i'd like to fall in love again. — Steven Rowley

I try to go to the gym a few times a week, but I admit, I cheat sometimes, and sometimes I don't go as often. I usually do more cardio and little bit of weights. — Helena Mattsson

The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer. — John Oates

Some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very compressed and intense ... — John Geddes

[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can buy them Christmas presents, but there is no way to send them. Sometimes I feel like I should be able to walk into the next room and there they will be, but they won't. These people do not exisit as flesh and blood, but there are different kinds of reality, and there are days when imagination feels very, very real. — Laurell K. Hamilton