Withinness Quotes & Sayings

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor. — Moby

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay. — Tony Hoare

Most times things make sense, eventually. — Erin Morgenstern

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him. — Joshua Micah Marshall

But could anything have always existed? Something deep down inside her protested at the idea. Surely everything that exists must have had a beginning? So space must sometime have been created out of something else. But if space had come from something else, then that something else must also have come from something. Sophie felt she was only deferring the problem. At some point, something must have come from nothing. But was that possible? Wasn't that just as impossible as the idea that the world had always existed? — Jostein Gaarder

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is like to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, a poem permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves. — Mark Strand

All bookshelves are magical. — Neil Gaiman