Untranslated Texts Quotes & Sayings

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine. — Sri Aurobindo

Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work. — Marcia Gay Harden

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost. — Gaston Bachelard

Promise me, you will always be there for me. — Lailah Gifty Akita

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer. — Samuel R. Delany

They would continue to live in New Tiamaat, orbiting Crucible. — Alastair Reynolds

Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge. — Karen DeCrow

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly. — Ben Okri

Sense is apt to fly out of the window when a girl falls in love. — Elizabeth Aston

Because I am still learning to walk and talk, and it is a million times easier to be cynical and wield a sword, than it is to be open-hearted and stand there, holding a balloon and a birthday cake, with the infinite potential to look foolish. — Caitlin Moran

A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract. — Leigh Steinberg

You don't know many friends you have till you buy a big-ass house on the beach. — Lois Greiman

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say ... — Jonathan Safran Foer