Timonero Quotes & Sayings

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion. — Aldous Huxley

Nothing we are told, nothing we read prepares us for the feelings we have as a new parent holding our baby, and knowing that we also hold their life in the balance. — Kim John Payne

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved?
-Lena Kaligaris — Ann Brashares

Running, you should know, is a kind of stillness. — Tiphanie Yanique

I have no hesitation to say that St. Louis is a great place in which to live and work. — Stan Musial

A tree forms itself in answer
to its place and the light.
Explain it how you will, the only
thing explainable will be
your explanation.
Sabbaths 1999 IV — Wendell Berry

How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot — Sara Shepard

Many of us have had the attitude that life is something that happens to us and that all we can do is make the best of it. It is basically a victim's position, giving power to people and things outside of ourselves. We are beginning to realize that the power rests in us, that we can choose to create our life the way we want it to be. — Shakti Gawain

I violated, apparently, an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly, if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don't think there's enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington. — Mark Leibovich

The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded, — Paul Saffo

It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me. — Kevin Pietersen

Sally wasn't crying about their dead mother or her cancer. She was crying because her husband, Alfonso, had left her after twenty years for a young woman. It seemed a brutal thing to do, just after her mastectomy. She was devastated, but no, she wouldn't ever divorce him, even though the woman was pregnant and he wanted to marry her.

"They can just wait until I die. I'll be dead soon, probably next year..." Sally wept but the ocean drowned out the sound. — Lucia Berlin