Shining Book Jack Torrance Quotes & Sayings

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right. — Namie Amuro

Daydream is the only good thing in life. Everything else is vulgar and empty. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them. — Kato Lomb

This axiom of Aristotelian logic has so deeply imbued our habits of thought that it is felt to be "natural" and self-evident, while on the other hand the statement that X is A and not A seems to be nonsensical. (Of course, the statement refers to the subject X at a given time, not to X now and X later, or one aspect of X as against another aspect.) — Erich Fromm

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. — John Piper

Fulfillment, Shevek thought, is a function of time. The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal, The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.
Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings.
It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and the future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then. — Tim Murphy

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul. — Bernard Of Clairvaux