Supersecond Quotes & Sayings

Everyone knows marriage is hard work. So if you've chosen the shackles, quit whining and get on with it. — Karina Bliss

In a brief moment of lucidity, I was sure that we'd all gone crazy. But then that moment of lucidity was displaced by a supersecond of superlucidity (if I can put it that way), in which I realized that this scene was the logical outcome of our ridiculous lives. It wasn't a punishment but a new wrinkle. It gave us a glimpse of ourselves in our common humanity. It wasn't proof of our idle guilt but a sign of our miraculous and pointless innocence. But that's not it. That's not it. We were still and they were in motion and the sand on the beach was moving, not because of the wind but because of what they were doing and what we were doing, which was nothing, which was watching, and all of that together was the wrinkle, the moment of superlucidity. Then, nothing. — Roberto Bolano

As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your very best. — Joseph McGinty Nichol

The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning. — Gerry Spence

In the present, every day is a miracle. — James Gould Cozzens

No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky. — Aldo Leopold

To the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours ... — Black Elk