Quote for Today: Hugh Laurie
People talk about nightfall, or night falling, or dusk falling, and it’s never seemed right to me. Perhaps they once meant befalling. As in night befalls. As in night happens. …
Quote for Today: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. –Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry Public …
Quote for Today: Bill Bryson
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of …
Quote for Today: Srikumar Rao
When you label so much of what happens to you as ‘bad,’ it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which …
Quote for Today: Jacquetta Hawkes
There is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don’t have, at least, a …
Quote for Today: Julian Barnes
For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memory; but that it refers …
Quote for Today: A. S. Byatt
The black thing in her brain and the dark water on the page were the same thing, a form of knowledge. This is how myths work. They are things, creatures, …
Quote for Today: Umberto Eco
But is the unicorn a falsehood? It’s the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity; it can be captured only by setting a …
Two Views from a Cage: Adjoining Cells by Katherine McDaniel
When two people settle into a pattern of behavior it becomes increasingly difficult to change habits. In some cases, it may be that those very habits are all that connect us. For some …
Quote for Today: William S. Wilson
We have, after all, an increase in the energy available for further evolution; we can use the energy of our position relative to the probabilities in the future to …