Coherences Quotes

#1. In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.

Ben Lerner

#2. We would understand much more about life's complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time
on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

Jose Saramago

#3. I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.

Deb Caletti

#4. Whoever was in charge of dishing out my Immortal Bonds, must have been really drunk.

Cameo Renae

#5. The run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or more ambiguously recombined in unexpected but more meaningful ways

J.G. Ballard

#6. He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

C.S. Lewis

#8. Which isn't, like, as bad as it sounds, because the general public kind of sucks ass.

Christopher Moore

#9. I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell

Garry Shandling

#10. I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

John Lennon

#11. Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.

Rodney Mullen

#12. Was the Younger Dryas cold event that began so suddenly and so mysteriously 12,800 years ago brought on by the effects of a large comet hitting the earth?

Graham Hancock

#13. Goodness is an open gate to a great life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

Susan Hill

#15. Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.

Stevie Wonder