Unlocatable Quotes & Sayings

I prefer to be left alone with my books. — Alison Weir

Thomas Lull knows he is un-American: he hates cars but loves trains, Indian trains, big trains like a nation on the move. He is content with the contradiction that they are at once hierarchical and democratic, a temporary community brought together for a time; vital while it lasts, burning away like early mist when the terminus is reached. — Ian McDonald

I realized the place was awash in noise. The toneless systems, the jangle and skid of carts, the loudspeaker and coffee-making machines, the cries of children. And over it all, or under it all, a dull and unlocatable roar, as of some form of swarming life just outside the range of human apprehension. — Don DeLillo

The unlocatable location of things thought about — Julian Jaynes

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible. — Friedrich Nietzsche

God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world. — Dillon Burroughs

The only thing my mother would say about my music-I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are. — Ornette Coleman

Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do. — Peter Schjeldahl

We took the coal-and-ice dealers into taverns and drank beer and swapped talk, in those sleepy and dark with heat joints where the very flies crept rather than flew, seeming doped by the urinal camphors and malt sourness, and from the heated emptiness and woodblock-knocking of the baseball broadcast that gave only more constriction to the unlocatable, undiagnosed wrong. — Saul Bellow

and much more interesting. — Joyce Carol Oates

There are some moments in life we all have to face, even though we don't want to. — Lisa De Jong

The first man and woman knew it all; they had "pure and uncorrupted natural knowledge," before they tasted the forbidden fruit and were thrown out of Paradise. Adam and Eve enjoyed not only perfect knowledge but perfect power; and there was no death in the world. Once we recover what our First Parents knew, we will conquer death again. — Jonathan Weiner

But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construct our narrative is different from the way we constructed it a year ago. The difference is maybe very small or it may be huge. — Antonio Damasio

To give up doing evil is more important than making merit. — Ajahn Chah

My true place in the world, it turned out, was somewhere beyond myself, and if that place was inside me, it was also unlocatable. This was the tiny hole between self and not-self, and for the first time in my life I saw this nowhere as the exact center of the world. — Paul Auster

I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months. — Fred Wilson

I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school. — Douglass North

He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing. — Cassandra Clare