Books Quote by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind…

— James Joyce

“In fiction classes... you find that epiphany has a pretty high rate of occurrence... But when you tell your own story honestly, that epiphany…

— Darrin Strauss

The Notion Of A Contemporary Epiphany To Me Is Very Exciting, Because It's A Sort Of Biblical Thing. It's Something That Has Happened To…

— Pamela Stephenson

“The secret of seeing is, then the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it…

— Annie Dillard

“The epiphany was simply tucked away for consideration after we were back on campus. Sometimes a revelation comes with a flash of heavenly light…

— Jeffrey A. Lockwood

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

— C.E. Morgan

“There is a precise moment which everyone who has ever drawn or sewn or sculpted a thing will recognize, and that is the moment…

— C.E. McGill

“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

“Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I'm not usually sold on epiphanies. I am more interested in the opposite experience: not those rare moments of startling insight or realization, but-what…

— Robert Atwan

“Revealing of origin , evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well.”

— Seema Gupta

I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and…

— Sharon Olds