Quote by Kim Stanley Robinson

“People on Earth engaged in ritual repetition; most of them thought as little as possible; most of them occupied themselves with things and events…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice. She possessed a keen sense of the fundamental absurdity…

— Leah Hager Cohen

“The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion-makes the thought start into action, and at once plans and performs, resolves and executes.”

— Hannah Moore

“Awkward approximations, dull stammerings which cannot convey my sense of exhilaration as I seem to burst impediments, to exceed bounds of the possible, to…

— Steven Millhauser

“There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness, which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Yet we wanted human feeling, gestures free from suspicion, some sympathetic if stammering articulation, half syllables of mystification, a temporary eternal.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“In the laughter of soul, the century-old agony is freed, like petals loosened in spring.”

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Occasion revived an illusion of discovery, as if one woke in a strange room to wonder afresh not only where but who one was;…

— Shirley Hazzard

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

— Hannah More

“At the moment of death, the soul's impressions are similar to those of initiates in the ways of the Great Mysteries. First they rush…

— Bernard Werber

“To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“But sometimes unexpected things happen that can rouse an old memory, something seminal, a past event so momentous and strong that, like a rare…

— Steve Duno