Short Iridescent Quotes & Sayings

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut. — Jim Coleman

To look this way is to see. To see is to have vision. To have vision is to understand. To understand is to know. To know is to become. To become is to live fully. To live fully is to matter. And to matter is to become light. And to become light is to be loved. And to be loved is to burn. And to burn is to exist. Off and on. — Robert Fulghum

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

All he had was *being* as a soap bubble: an iridescent wonder, holding so much but for such a short time, always one plink from nothingness, one plink from surrendering volume to the sky". — Will Chancellor

Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon - for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you - and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her. — Zora Neale Hurston

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983. — Deborah Harkness

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking? — Arlo Guthrie

Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that — Koushun Takami

The seed has been sown that will grow one day ... to the glorious rebirth of the National Socialist movement of a truly united nation. — Adolf Hitler

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand. — Oprah Winfrey

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral ... it is a place between heaven and earth. — Anselm Kiefer

God is hidden in vocations that bear authority. But that puts the pressure on human beings exercise that authority to act with God's justice and grace — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

All Americans deserve an equal crack at what it means to be a - having - having resources in your own home and in your state and in your country. — Michael Eric Dyson

We want to go to God for answers, but sometimes what we get is God's presence. — Nadia Bolz-Weber