Somnium Quotes & Sayings

Unfortunately for you love, I take my pleasure with a shot of pain — Keri Lake

We're not exactly heavenly angels. More like prison inmates with wings. — Keri Lake

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. — Thomas Browne

The search for the new black is one of the most elusive quests known to man. It's rumored that Christopher Columbus once searched for the new black and simply gave up. Yet every season we are convinced that some magical chromatic fabric will usurp black as the king of fashion, only to realize later that black still reigns supreme. — Ashton Kutcher

The Somnium makes clear to us, although it did not to all of Kepler's contemporaries, that "in a dream one must be allowed the liberty of imagining occasionally that which never existed in the world of sense perception." Science fiction was a new idea at the time of the Thirty Years' War, and Kepler's book was used as evidence that his mother was a witch. — Carl Sagan

Love survives in a bubble. It diffuses outer reality and reflects only what the heart wants to see. — Shona Patel

One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way. — John Barth

Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations. — Heinrich Hertz

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality. — Leonard Shlain

Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life. — Bob Marley

You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought. — James Joyce

It made you happy, to be used by me?" Perhaps not so promising. I raised my brows with amusement. "I orgasmed three times; you did once. Who's using whom, Siberian? — Kresley Cole