Tangible Quotes

242 quotes by 220 authors

... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate… — Audre Lorde
Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed?… — Toni Morrison
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes… — Marilynne Robinson
I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone , it was tangible...something real you could grab and hold on to,… — Norma Fox Mazer
There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded… — Aleksandar Hemon
Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind… — John Marsden
Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have. — Richard Connell
I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves. — Joyce Johnson
But what of faith? What of fidelity and loyalty? Complete trust? Faith is not granted by tangible proof. It comes from the heart and the… — R A Salvatore
Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words… — Paul Auster
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a… — Paulo Freire
But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and… — Tim O'Brien
A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy… — Alistair Begg
If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting… — Jack Vance
A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything-… — Chuck Palahniuk
I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible. — Edward Abbey
As he stared back, he altered...as if a shield slid away fro his eyes, revealing a scorching force of will that sucked the air from… — Sylvia Day
Giles: Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences… — Joss Whedon
An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. Itâ€™s this in-between that Iâ€™m calling a province,… — Federico Fellini

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