Diorama Quotes

#1. Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape

Oliver Sacks

#2. The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

George Eliot

#3. I turned right onto the A410 which went north with suspiciously Roman straightness toward Aymestrey, which is less a village than a diorama of the last six hundred years of English vernacular architecture stretched along either side of the road.

Ben Aaronovitch

#4. The sun rolls along up Fourteenth Street and the ghost of a habit turns Cat's face into the light. She shields her eyes and looks east, half expecting to see her father, a sun-blown shadow in the diorama box of his newsstand.

Cari Luna

#5. If this was the afterlife, he thought, it was a lot like the House on the Rock: part diorama, part nightmare.

Neil Gaiman

#6. I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.

Molly Antopol

#7. It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.

Stefan Zweig

#8. Nothing is permanent, I tell myself over and over. Especially not a horse.

Mara Dabrishus

#9. Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

John Quincy Adams

#10. Through my college years, topping that ridge had always given me a great sense of being home, but time had diminished the emotion and I had begun to suspect that home was less a place than an empty page.

Larry McMurtry

#11. Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

William A. Dembski

#12. Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

Michael A. Stackpole

#13. Love should give wings to the feet of service, and strength to the arms of labour.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man.

Hugh Black

#15. Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Craig Bruce

#16. The Constitution was a reaffirmation of faith in the principles painfully evolved over the centuries by the English-speaking peoples. It enshrined long-standing English ideas of justice and liberty, henceforth to be regarded on the other side of the Atlantic as basically American.

Winston S. Churchill

#17. Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you've made.

Matt Damon

#20. You're impossible, Yankel! I'm possibly possible. Thank you, she said,

Jonathan Safran Foer