Dreams Quote by Marilynne Robinson

“And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“On another occasion, he stared at the Sun for as long as he could bear, to determine what effect it would have upon his…

— Bill Bryson

“He must have given up on image making because his eyes had failed to see something they had yearned for; his mind had failed…

— Josip Novakovich

“To be strong and true had been the most important task he had set himself since early childhood. Once, as a boy, he had…

— Yukio Mishima

“Like my own personal sun, he was not only too radiant to look at directly, I also found myself more and more drawn into…

— John Goode

“...he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window --…

— Neal Stephenson

“Whenever a great thinker wants to make of himself a binding institution for future mankind, one may be certain that he is past the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The age of great men, when a single mind of intelligence and vision might change the destiny of the world, was long gone.”

— Helen Simonson

“Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun.”

— Cassandra Clare

“clarity of vision that could only have come from being honed on the grindstone of reality.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey…

— Edith Wharton

“Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it…

— George Eliot