Sigurgeirs Quotes & Sayings

And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.' — Dave Van Ronk

I know, for example, that Mr. Petersen did not experience the flow of time in the same way that I did during those last sixteen months. He told me often, particularly towards the end, that for him time had become a slow, peaceful drift. If I had to guess why this was the case, I'd say that maybe it was because this was time he never expected to have. Or maybe it was more than he was now letting time drift. There was a certain type of contentment in his outlook, which never strayed too far into the future. His life had become simple and uncluttered, and when you're living like that, I think time can seem to stretch out for ever. Matters only change when you start fretting about all the things you need to get done. The more stuff you try to force into it, the less accommodating time becomes. — Gavin Extence

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent. — William Wordsworth

They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale. — Ray Bradbury

The pathway traced with blood and tears,
and dust of all our father's dead,
Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red,
Fade to the mist of nameless years.
("The Testimony of the Suns") — George Sterling

Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them. — Agatha Christie

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787) — Thomas Jefferson

Del Usion
If you knew the person
He thinks he is
You'd have to admit
He's one very special guy. — Laurence Overmire

Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change. — Joshua Fernandez

Winning isn't as important as doing well individually. You can't take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate. — Ken Landreaux

There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it. — Umberto Eco

Our best analyst thinks it's not a tactical design. Something for mall ninjas ...
Young men who dress to feel they'll be mistaken for having special capability. A species of cosplay, really. Endemic. Lots of boys are playing soldier now. The men who run the world aren't, and neither are the boys most effectively bent on running it next. Or the ones who're actually having to be soldiers, of course. But many of the rest have gone gear-queer, to one extent or another. — William Gibson