Zantingen Quotes & Sayings

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it. — Aljean Harmetz

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over! — Jason Aldean

The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I admit that I have submitted to it all; worse, I have loved with all my heart. — Jean Lorrain

Whatever evil you let ride becomes commonplace, eventually. Problem is, it's easier to get used to it than carve it out. — Steven Erikson

It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a world of wonderful beauty. Between it and herself hung only a thin curtain; she could never draw the curtain aside
but sometimes, just for a moment, a wind fluttered it and then it was as if she caught a glimpse of the enchanting realm beyond
only a glimpse
and heard a note of unearthly music. — L.M. Montgomery

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them? — Beatrice Webb

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now
History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors
And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,
Guides us by vanities. Think now
She gives when our attention is distracted
And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions
That the giving famishes the craving. Gives too late
What's not believed in, or if still believed,
In memory only, reconsidered passion. Gives too soon
Into weak hands, what's thought can be dispensed with
Till the refusal propagates a fear. Think
Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices
Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues
Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.
These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree. — T. S. Eliot

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch. — Alice Walker

The deepest human intuition is not the immediate grasping of the classical-physics-type character of the external world. It is rather that one's own conscious subjective efforts can influence the experiences that follow. Any conception of nature that makes this deep intuition an illusion is counterintuitive. Any conception of reality that cannot explain how our conscious efforts influence our bodily actions is problematic. What is actually deeply intuitive is the continually reconfirmed fact that our conscious efforts can influence certain kinds of experiential feedback. A putatively rational scientific theory needs at the very least to explain this connection in a rational way to be in line with intuition. — Paul Davies

I need to get in line,' I said.
'Should I walk up with you?'
'No,' I said, 'because we'll start this routine all over.'
'What if I want to?'
'I'd like that,' I said. 'But don't. — Mark Wallace

Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

I love playing with words and texture. — Binyavanga Wainaina

And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea. — Marion Zimmer Bradley