We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
“Some days are for falling in love with someone, and others are for gathering your pieces and reconstructing yourself.” — Shahid Hussain Raja Copy Share Image
These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a… — Betye Saar Copy Share Image
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The U theory suggests that the central integrating thought ... will emerge from building three integrated capacities: a new capacity for observing… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
“Outlines can help, but not if you begin with them. If you begin, instead, by writing down everything, by spewing out your… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
“I have always been tormented by the image of multiplicity of selves. Some days I call it richness, and other days I… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“The past is like a broken mirror— you don’t remember but fleeting glimpses of it, sparse moments over many years, all combined… — Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi Copy Share Image
It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him,… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The truth was, sooner or later life broke everyone. We were all broken pieces. The trick was to gather up our remaining… — Kathleen Long Copy Share Image
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Fragments maybe fallen and broken apart, but you can always try and pick the pieces back up again, because they'll remain appart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
“I could think of any moment and see him weaved throughout it. It was as though his soul was interwoven with mine” — M.R. Field Copy Share Image
