Solennelle Quotes & Sayings

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. — Henri Frederic Amiel

To maintain peace in the future it is necessary to be prepared for war. — Ulysses S. Grant

She could, at this stage of things, recognize signals like that, as the epileptic is said to - an odor, color, pure piercing grace note announcing his seizure. Afterward it is only this signal, really dross, this secular announcement, and never what is revealed during the attack, that he remembers. Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this (if it were supposed to end), she too might not be left with only compiled memories of clues, announcements, intimations, but never the central truth itself, which must somehow each time be too bright for her memory to hold; which must always blaze out, destroying its own message irreversibly, leaving an overexposed blank when the ordinary world came back. — Thomas Pynchon

I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear - fear of losing an idea - fear of feeling stagnant. — Nick Antosca

A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. — Arthur Golden

Uphill, downhill, I like that. — Peter Sagan

All white people are born with a singular mission in life in order to pass from regular whitehood into ultra-whitehood. Just as Muslims have to visit Mecca, all white people must eventually renovate a house before they can be complete. — Christian Lander