Shardonish Quotes & Sayings

What is the alternative to religion as we know it? As it turns out, this is the wrong question to ask. Chemistry was not an "alternative" to alchemy; it was a wholesale exchange of ignorance at its most rococo for genuine knowledge. We will find that, as with alchemy, to speak of "alternatives" to religious faith is to miss the point. — Sam Harris

I now know all shades of the color green, having spent 90 days staring at that green screen. I'll never forget that color, as long as I live. — Rob Letterman

Least said is soon disavowed. — Ambrose Bierce

Invest in your brain, invest in your talents. Those things can appreciate and they get better as you get older. — Rashida Jones

Both the Shardon and their kin, the Chuns, have similar expressions. In Shardonish, it's Chu'rosh ko'ingar ju'shingu, ishi kimush'ur ta'osh., while in Chunshar it's Cho'ros'ah ko'ingar ju'shingu, esh'i ki'mos'ah'ir ta'ah. Roughly translated, both mean the same thing; 'There is a Darkness among the stars, deeper than space itself.' — Stuart Lynn Sexton

I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life ... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything. — Chester W. Nimitz

He imagined that in his estate of eternal night he might somehow have already halved the distance to death. That the transition for him could not be so great for the world was already at some certain distance and if it were not death's terrain he encroached upon in his darkness then whose? — Cormac McCarthy

The eternal, the infinite, and unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as "my god" or "our god. — Eckhart Tolle

But there were some things they didn't agree on. — Stan Berenstain

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses. — Gloria Stuart

It's hard to put into words. It's as much a feeling as it is the way your stomach flutters when you think of him. It's the feeling of being reached and reaching someone. It's the feeling of being sen by someone for who you really are and being adored for it. That, for me, is connection. — Sarah Jio

He wanted to cut the man's throat. Never in his life had he been so overpowered by such a desire to kill someone. It was a strange feeling, sweet and driven. In one leap he could be on him. His legs wanted to do it; they trembled with anticipation. — Robert Karjel

I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals. — Paul Newman

A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey. — Lynne Rae Perkins