Tombeau Ouvert Quotes & Sayings

It is necessarily so, since every traditional art obeys a particular spiritual economy that limits its themes and means of expression, so that an abandonment of that economy almost immediately releases new and apparently unlimited artistic possibilities. — Titus Burckhardt

Perhaps sex isn't of the body at all. Perhaps it is a function of language. — Zadie Smith

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks. — Bob Geldof

A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in which sentiment, idea, and will are confounded together, where for the lack of the powerful corrective of logic, the flights of imagination know no bounds, where life and human activity are deprived of a regulator, and move outside of material and concrete factors, by the sole interior force of the soul. — Kadmi Cohen

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults. — Charles M. Schulz

Watching him was like opening the door to a siniging telegram; you know it's supposed to be entertaining, but you can't get beyond the sad fact that this person actually thinks he bringing some joy into your life. Somewhere he had a mother who sifted through a shoe box of mimeographed playbills, pouring herself another drink and wondering when her son would come to his senses and swallow some drain cleaner. — David Sedaris

It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so. — Suzanne Collins

I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. — Hippocrates

If I had learned one thing from Homer over the years, it was that just because you couldn't quite see your way out of a difficulty, that didn't mean a way out didn't exist. — Gwen Cooper

Maybe I'm not meant to change the
world.
Or change the lives of these two
girls.
Maybe they're meant to change mine. — Madelyn Neal

A reporter is no better than his source of information. — William O. Douglas

I'm a disease. That's what I am to you. — Rick Yancey

Our friends were not poetical, and the sight suggested to them no metaphors of human destiny; they thought only of the wonderful efficiency of it all. — Upton Sinclair

The betterment of a community directly depends on the betterment of lives in that Community. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom. — Eric Ludy