Torben Sondergaard Quotes & Sayings

It's like watching some rare exotic butterfly. Pleasant to watch, but you can't touch it, for as soon as you do, it dies, it's brilliance gone. — Haruki Murakami

I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors. — Patti Smith

Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation. — Joel Salatin

Her lips write silent poetry upon mine. — B.L. Berry

It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others. — Lisa Unger

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was. — Paul Desmond

Underneath their human guises, they looked like the typical faery - that is, no wings, scantily clad and kind of man-pretty like Orlando Bloom's Legolas ... — Kevin Hearne

It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely. — Mario Bunge

Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I believe in literary form - I'll use my life as material for art (I don't know how not to do this) and I'll use art as a way of exploring that passage of life into art and vice versa, but that's not the same thing as thinking that any of the details of my life are interesting or relevant on their own. — Ben Lerner

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it. — Bertrand Russell

It seemed like we were supposed to feel sorry for everything that ever happened, ever. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice — Mortimer J. Adler

Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard. — Karen Karbo

Tomorrow I have to break Clipper's heart. Really bust it open. - Tea — Jamie Scallion