Unspooled Quotes & Sayings

I had not understood then what I think I have now come to understand: that we can keep the past only by having the future, for they are forever tied together. Therefore — Robert Penn Warren

The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly. — Rabindranath Tagore

Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true. — Steve Erickson

Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food, — Michael Pollan

It was a piece of advice only, and aimed at myself as much, I suppose, as at you. - For those of easy tongues, she said. Remember, some live all their lives without discovering this truth; that the noblest and most terrible power we possess is the power we have, each of us, over the chance-met, the stranger, the passer-by outside your life and your kin. Speak, she said, as you would write: as if your words were letters of lead, graven there for all time, for which you must take the consequences. And take the consequences. — Dorothy Dunnett

Below me, clusters of palm trees were painted green-gold. Tousled by the wind, their fronds resembled tangles of unspooled cassette tape. — Louisa Hall

My brain is open. — Paul Erdos

of those New York construction workers were honored at the White House a few weeks later by President Nixon. He thanked them for showing their patriotism the day they beat students. He gave them flag lapel pins, and they gave him a yellow hard hat like the ones they wore the day they assaulted students, seventy of whom were seriously injured. — Betty Medsger

We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons ... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day. — Julia Cameron

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely. — Umberto Eco

Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ. — Luiz Felipe Scolari

[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing! — Isabella Bird

He steadied himself with one great hand against the city wall. He had told me he'd never stop growing. He'd meant it literally. What had I been addressing all these years? His finger? — Rachel Hartman

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself. — Laird Barron

In the Land of Romance, cheap candles are more valuable than ingots of gold. — Mehmet Murat Ildan