After The Deluge Quotes

#1. We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
[Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

Ovid

#2. Rune's eyes danced and his lean tanned features lit with laughter. "You ... cooled the meat for me?"
"Rasputin cannot eat the chicken when it is too hot," she said, frowning at him. "It seemed logical that you would not be able to either.

Thea Harrison

#3. Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final signpost at the edge of nothing. After that - the deluge. The great white light of annihilation. The bright flash of death ... ("Mr. Arcularis")

Conrad Aiken

#4. The boy who had stood with such grace after the storm had become the storm, and all that was beautiful within him was swept away in a deluge of his own making.

Clayton Kinnelon Greiman

#5. Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times ... To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern ...

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair.

Norman Rush

#7. I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.

Van Morrison

#8. conventional phrases are a sort of fireworks, easily let off, and liable to take a great variety of shapes and colours not at all suggested by their original form.

Charles Dickens

#9. I am empowered by self-knowledge, by ownership of my experiences, and by all aspects of myself.

Maureen Brady

#10. My vocation to preach on paper.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#11. Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.

Richard Harris

#12. Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don't know the punchline.

John Lloyd

#13. I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

Dick Van Dyke

#14. Living for oneself, respecting our being is one of the most important code of anybody's existence and a person who fails to justify his being fails to justify the society as well..

Tripta Arora

#15. His image shifted jerkily once, twice. She caught the sound of his voice deconstructed into halting and meaningless syllables. And then the window went dark.

Rob Thomas

#16. I must achieve internal consistency.

Edmund Husserl