Sociogeographic Quotes & Sayings

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past. — Ben Lerner

Spending time with her father was like showering with a cheese grate - it got more painful each time. — Steven Manchester

If you have something, someone will take it from you, and with the loss comes suffering. It's best to be beholden to nothing. — Mindy McGinnis

Who then," she continues, "tells a finer tale than any of us? Silence does. And where does one read a deeper tale than upon the most perfectly printed page of the most precious book? Upon the blank page. When a royal and gallant pen, in the moment of its highest inspiration, has written down its tale with the rarest ink of all -- where, then, may one read a still deeper, sweeter, merrier and more cruel tale than that? Upon the blank page. — Isak Dinesen

Sigh for me, night-wind, in the noisy leaves of the oak. / I am tired. Sleep for me, heaven over the hill. / Shout for me, loudly and loudly, joyful sun, when you rise. — Wallace Stevens

The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

Passion. Confidence. Gratitude. The possibility of making positive change in the world. It's the sort of "spark" one gets the moment they decide to go after what they want, really fight for it, work hard, and not give up. I love that spark; it's beautifully contagious. — Beth Riesgraf

Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion. — Jack Canfield

She had grown to accept unpleasantness as a part of life rather than to struggle futilely against truths that could not be changed. — Terry Brooks

There is always something vaguely unsettling about being alone in an empty building that is not your own. It is as if, whenever present inhabitants are away, the phantoms of former owners come shimmering out of the woodwork to protect their territory. Although you cannot see these ghosts, you can certainly feel their unwelcoming presence, and sometimes even smell them: a sort of shivering in the air that tells you that you're not alone and not wanted. — Alan Bradley

The sea only drowns its lovers. — Christopher Isherwood

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light. — Dan Brown

Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified assholes means you've grown up. — Crystal Woods

And from the perspective of those in need, that extra quarter of a million bucks your material person spent on the prestige addition for his house looks like an awful lot of lifesaving food and medicine that could have existed if the jerk with the big house in the suburbs hadn't blown it all to artificially inflate his sociogeographic penis. — Jim Butcher

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings. — Jim Fowler

A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself. A lot of what happens in the industry is that you are cast based on other things that people have seen you do, or how you are perceived to look or sound. If everyone thinks you're bizarre and creepy, then you play bad guys. — Matt Ross