Unmystical Quotes & Sayings

What's the point of sea horses? I asked.
The old man stood before them, mouth hung open, as if before his god. — David Vann

Memory is a powerful thing for a writer. — Bobbie Ann Mason

A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane. — Aldous Huxley

The corporate joke among humans was that the official symbol of the barabo financial regulator was a shrug. — Joel Shepherd

The house was burning, the yellow-red sky was like the sunset ... Nothing would be left, the golden ferns and the silver ferns, the orchids, the ginger lilies and the roses ... When they had finished, there would be nothing left but blackened walls and the mounting stone. That was always left. That could not be stolen or burned. — Jean Rhys

The faint pink coating the treetops promised rippling buds, a sure sign of spring hastening in, right on schedule, and the animal world getting ready for its fiesta of courting and mating, dueling and dancing, suckling and grubbing, costume-making and shedding-in short, the fuzzy, fizzy hoopla of life's ramshackle return. — Diane Ackerman

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The streets of hell are paved with good intentions. — Shania Twain

We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron. — George R R Martin

You want to know why I am giving you a choice, Gabriel? I'll tell you why. There is a core inside of you that has never been touched, not by me, not by Michael, not by Mademoiselle Childers. I want to see what it will take to break into that core. I want to see it now. — Robin Schone

We are reflectors, and as reflectors we have one duty and that is to stay clean or we won't reflect Jesus. — David Jeremiah

...unmystical, hard-headed, argumentative, and possessed of a powerful personality that did not take easily to being contradicted. [Galileo] — Allan Chapman