Detouring Quotes

#1. Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

Craig Thompson

#2. [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.

Paul Murray Kendall

#3. Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.

Charlie Munger

#4. I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

Philip Guston

#5. The Laird of Coll was undoubtedly a hard man. He didn't smile often, but when he did, it was as if the sun broke through the clouds. And he was smiling right now as she considered his question, knowing very well that she was enjoying herself.

Monica McCarty

#6. No one appreciated Jem properly, anyway. All they see is his disease. He's beautiful, and you don't have to look that closely to see it. You just have to look.

Abria Mattina

#7. The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before?

Gretel Ehrlich

#8. But the most important thing to know about being an introvert is that there's nothing wrong with you. You're not broken because you're quiet. It's okay to stay home on a Friday night instead of going to a party. Being an introvert is a perfectly normal 'thing' to be.

Jenn Granneman

#9. Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

Julius Erving

#10. The Natural Step is a clear voice in the commotion.

Leif Johansson

#11. I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

Dinesh D'Souza