Quote for Today: George Saunders
Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day’s end. They were manifesting as the earth’s bright-colored nerve endings, …
Quote for Today: W. Somerset Maugham
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a …
Quote for Today: Zhuangzi
Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slander, fame, hunger, thirst, cold, heat – these are the alternations of the world, the workings of fate. Day and …
Quote for Today: A. A. Milne
How did you fall in, Eeyore?” asked Rabbit, as he dried him with Piglet’s handkerchief. “I didn’t,” said Eeyore. “But how–” “I was BOUNCED,” said Eeyore. “Oo,” said Roo excitedly, …
Quote for Today: Gustave Flaubert
At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for …
Quote for Today: Lois McMaster Bujold
It’s a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn’t even know you were aiming for. —Lois McMaster Bujold, Cordelia’s Honor Public Domain Image via …
Quote for Today: Josh Homme
I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort of pounce out of the …
Quote for Today: Roger Zelazny
Life is full of doors that don’t open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don’t want them to. ―Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber
Quote for Today: Stephen Jay Gould
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields …