Ciscar Quotes

#1. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure.

Don DeLillo

#2. Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

Muriel Spark

#3. The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.

Neville Goddard

#4. People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.

Colm Toibin

#5. And so this is Christmas...what have you done?

John Lennon

#6. The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the resolve to get up that many times plus one.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Helen Gahagan

#8. We have not the remotest realistic inkling of a consciousness which is not self-consciousness.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#9. I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.

Jose Padilha

#10. Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.

Rita Mae Brown