Somni 451 Quotes & Sayings

I believe that each of us is entitled to one entire day that affects us so completely,it immediately reorders the narrative of our lives, declaring itself the crucial chapter in the story that unlocks all others. The moment becomes the center of our personal universe, and we revolve around it, continuing to live it and relive it long after the action of the day would seem to have been completed. — Dave Itzkoff

It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true. — Idries Shah

A soul cannot be broken. It is not a teacup. If you have suffered abuse of any kind, know that perfection exists untarnished within you. — Jewel

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types. — Joni Mitchell

Nil magnum nisi bonum. No greatness without goodness. — Yann Martel

Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood? — Ashley Montagu

If you do this, you're going to have some heartaches from it. You're going to have people yelling at you or maybe screaming at you or criticizing you, but I think it's the best way to sell a superior chicken. — Frank Perdue

Once upon a time there were two cities within a city. One was light and one was dark. One moved restlessly all day while the other never stirred. One was warm and filled with ever-changing lights. One was cold and fixed in place by stones. And when the sun went down each afternoon on Maximus Films, the city of the living, it began to resemble Green Glade cemetery just across the way, which was the city of the dead. — Ray Bradbury

A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat. — David Mitchell

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction. — Walter Mosley

She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were about to burn up or shatter. — Alice Hoffman

The tide climbs. The moon hangs small and yellow and gibbous. On the rooftops of beachfront hotels to the east, and in the gardens behind them, a half-dozen American artillery units drop incendiary rounds into the mouths of mortars. — Anthony Doerr

Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect. — Maery Rubin

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error. — David Mitchell

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions? — David Mitchell