Streamen Chat Quotes & Sayings

Solitude means withdrawal from an artificial and fictional level of being which men, divided by original sin, have fabricated in order to keep peace with concupiscence and death. But by that very fact the solitary finds himself on the level of a more perfect spiritual society - the city of those who have become real enough to confess and glorify God (that is, life) in the teeth of death. — Thomas Merton

They stared at each other for a moment, perplexed by their newfound siblinghood. 'So we're the Luke and Leia of hell,' Mab said. — Jennifer Crusie

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. — Arthur Erickson

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one. — Salman Rushdie

I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day. — Luke Ford

I was a lot better at starting stories than I was at finishing them. — George R R Martin

Be gentle with everything in your life. — Bryan Kest

One can take a neon tube and simply paint it black on the front. So it would read as a black letter or a line, but it would also read as neon because there would be light coming from behind that black letter. — Glenn Ligon

Don't mix with Picks! — Carsten K. Rath

Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime ... They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us ... An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin. — Harry Hopkins

I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run. — Aziz Ansari

On the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, for example, I actually knew more about what had happened than the CAPCOM I'd called. — Chris Hadfield

Are we entirely ready, sir?" said Lieutenant Hornett, with the special inflection that means "We are not entirely ready, sir."
"We had better be. Glory awaits, gentlemen. In the words of General Tacticus, 'let us take history by the scrotum.' Of course, he was not a very honourable fighter. — Terry Pratchett

For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad. — Elvis Costello