Quote for Today: Hillary Jordan
I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of one, you look back and see another, …
Quote for Today: Jacob Riis
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at …
Quote for Today: Lynn Hersha
What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the right way and use the right code, and I no longer …
Quote for Today: Stanisław Lem
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways …
Quote for Today: Elias Canetti
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. —Elias Canetti
Quote for Today: George Eliot
“After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. …
Quote for Today: Terry Tempest Williams
“Once you know that you have a voice,” Louis said, “it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.” ―Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four …
Quote for Today: Elizabeth von Arnim
…listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to …
Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. …