Urmatan Quotes & Sayings

Thinking, then, is not conscious. Rather, it is an automatic process following a struction and the materials on which the struction is to operate. — Julian Jaynes

I seem to know that there's a part of you missing. Some men can't see the color green, but they may never know they can't. I think you are only a part of a human. I can't do anything about that. But I wonder whether you ever feel that something invisible is all around you. It would be horrible if you knew it was there and couldn't see it or feel it. — John Steinbeck

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress. — Plutarch

She twisted her hair as if the question made her uncomfortable. "Seeing the past is simple magic. Seeing the present or the future - that is not." "Yeah, well," Leo said. "Watch and learn, Sunshine. I just connect these last two wires, and - " The bronze plate sparked. Smoke billowed from the sphere. A flash of fire raced up Leo's sleeve. He pulled off his shirt, threw it down, and stomped on it. He could tell Calypso was trying not to laugh, but she was shaking with the effort. "Not a word," Leo warned. She glanced at his bare chest, which was sweaty, bony, and streaked with old scars from weapon-making accidents. "Nothing worth commenting on," she assured him. "If you want that device to work, perhaps you should try a musical invocation." "Right," he said. "Whenever an engine malfunctions, I like to tap-dance around it. Works every time. — Rick Riordan

People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten. — Daniel Goleman

Disasters teach us humility. — Anselm Of Canterbury

In history people dressed much better than we do today. — Vivienne Westwood

Better that you enslave us, but feed us. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls. — Connie Stevens

When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.' — Stacy Schiff

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control. — Red Adair