Clerkenwell Grind Quotes

#1. From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

Randall Jarrell

#2. Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

Marshall McLuhan

#3. I believe his exact words were cosmic, soul-shattering, air in your lungs kind of love.

Renee Carlino

#4. GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.

Brother Lawrence

#5. In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.

Brenda Blethyn

#6. Nighttown, because the Pit's inverted, and the bottom of its bowl touches the sky, the sky that Nighttown never sees, sweating under its own firmament of acrylic resin, up where the Lo Teks crouch in the dark like gargoyles,

William Gibson

#7. memory has a palette and broad brush.

Colson Whitehead

#8. The vast majority of A.D.A.s put everything on the line to make sure justice is served. That's what I love about prosecutors and the New York police.

Diane Neal

#9. The wealth creators of neoliberal mythology are some of the most effective wealth destroyers the world has ever seen.

George Monbiot

#10. In fact, the ultimate speculation we can make about the nature of Divinity is that Divinity is NO-THING which we can know. In Hebrew, the word for no-thing (nothing) is AIN.

Donald Michael Kraig

#11. Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

Oscar Isaac

#12. Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

J.B. Priestley

#13. Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!

Swami Vivekananda

#14. I can't imagine everyone on the planet would want to hear something from me. If I thought they'd listen, I'd probably ask them to try to be nicer to each other, to try to be less scared of their differences.

Damian Kulash

#15. Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

Lydia M. Child