Disjuncture Quotes

#1. Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.

Jennifer Pahlka

#3. One of the things about Steve Jobs is that he gives us an opportunity to look at the disjuncture between that world and the world he claimed that Apple represented, the "Think different" world of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and Gandhi.

Alex Gibney

#4. Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.

Damon Galgut

#5. The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

John Cleese

#6. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

Khalil Gibran

#7. Our work is never over.

Kanye West

#8. They came and they went; they ached and pained. They laughed privately and cried to themselves as if heeding a way- off silent call. They were forever childish, sweet and convulsive. They heard sound the way dog heard sound. They were like the moon- they changed every eight days.

Robert Olmstead

#9. The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

Flann O'Brien

#11. Obviously my game wasn't too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn't too good. It's a bit unfortunate because I was playing a lot of good golf, but when I got sick (flu) before The Masters, that was bad timing and I wasn't quite myself.

Ernie Els

#12. NEVER allow the enemy to define your terms. If you want to win a war of propaganda, you must be able to manipulate language to expose the truth.

Jenifer Mohammed

#13. Food is the supremest of pleasures.

Fay Weldon

#14. Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Willa Cather

#15. Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

Napoleon Hill

#16. My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was scared that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.

Stephen King