19th Century Philosopher Quotes

#1. If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals
then what wasn't?

Annie Dillard

#2. That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Elie Wiesel

#3. Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.

Todd Rundgren

#4. It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.

Ford Madox Ford

#5. I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.

Barney Frank

#6. As you can see, visually, with your eyes.

Murray Walker

#7. He needed me to make it okay.

Damon Suede

#8. I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

Erica Durance

#9. No matter how much success you may experience in life, your eventual story - no offence intended - will be one of failure. Your bodily organs will fail, and you'll die.

Oliver Burkeman

#10. I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it ... but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.

Soren Kierkegaard

#11. Sketchbooks and journals are the street lamps that illuminate the artist's journey.

Neil Waldman