Quote for Today: Hannah Brencher
I learned vulnerability is a bit like those Russian nesting dolls, the ones that get smaller and smaller in size when you twist the top off and pull another one …
Quote for Today: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Soft, flexible thread of this sort is a necessary prerequisite to making woven cloth. On a far more basic level, string can be used simply to tie things up – …
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
That (labyrinth)…became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes …
Quote for Today: Luke Rhinehart
Like the turtle’s shell, the sense of self serves as a shield against stimulation and as a burden which limits mobility into possibly dangerous areas. The turtle rarely …
Quote for Today: Alan Turing
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ― Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay
Quote for Today: Vladimir Nabokov
The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free. —Vladimir Nabokov The Ziggurat of Crestone © 2019 …
Quote for Today: Gaston Bachelard
A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true of the entire scale of metaphors, from the resurrection of a man …
Quote for Today: Eddie Lenihan
For no matter whether the fairies are seen metaphorically or as real beings inhabiting their own real world, a study of them shows us that those who came before …
Quote for Today: Paulette Jiles
Outside, as she passed the kitchen window, she watched her breath appear before her in the lamplight and then it died away in moist clouds. This was the smoke of …
Quote for Today: Desmond Tutu
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is …