Sndmn Quotes & Sayings

She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - — Dan Simmons

Your life is your own. I just get to rule it now and then. — Cherise Sinclair

Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should. — Patti Smith

Republicans like Trent Lott, saying [Donald] Trump would be more flexible [then Ted Cruz]. — Mara Liasson

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven. — Thomas Moore

I forgot to say - a merely curious detail - that in one of the first chapters of Sartor Resartus, when speaking about garments, Carlyle says that the simplest garment he knows of was used by the cavalry of Bolivar in the South American war. And here we have a description of the poncho as "a blanket with a hole in the middle," under which he imagines Bolivar's cavalry soldier, he imagines him - simplifying it a bit - "mother naked," as naked as when he came out of his mother's belly, covered by the poncho, with only his sword and his spear."25 — Jorge Luis Borges

A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society becomes dangerously unable to grapple with its own dilemmas and therefore to marshal the popular will to change and improve itself. — Alain De Botton