Esoterica Quotes

#1. One epoch's "popular culture" is another's esoterica.

Alfred Appel Jr.

#2. I waste a lot of my time documenting my "search for great esoterica" online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one's influences.

Michael Dumontier

#3. It's been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.

John Hodgman

#4. My whole creative career is a product of the Internet ... I'll take that back. To some degree. My fascination with cultural esoterica and trivia and so on was well-formed long before I got my first AOL account.

John Hodgman

#5. Life is a conundrum of esoterica.

Lemony Snicket

#6. Who is so fancy, esoterica saves the day?
Who is the Yogi, Namaste?

Kristen Henderson

#7. The room you are about to enter," the Eagle said, setting up Nicole's wheelchair, "is the largest single room in this domain. It is half a kilometer across at its widest point. Inside currently is a model of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Arthur C. Clarke

#8. There are many indications that the hexagrams were the original images from which the trigrams were then later abstracted and that the configurations of double lines are derrived from a still later anaysis.

Hellmut Wilhelm

#9. Use of No Use is Great Use. (Chuang Tzu)

Sung Yee Poon

#10. There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!

Nicolas Roeg

#11. I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.

Mark Gatiss

#12. I confess that I was filled with curiosity, but I was aware that Holmes liked to make his disclosures at his own time and in his own way,

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. Numbers are a fearful thing.

Euripides

#14. Jefferson the deist was accused of being an atheist and even a Muslim.

Karen Armstrong

#15. I think sometimes with new characters, you can kind of hit a creative valley, and it's important to recognize when you're in that valley so you can get back out and get back to that peak.

Jim Lee

#16. Who are the 20% of people who produce 80% of your enjoyment and propel you forward, and which 20% cause 80% of your depression, anger, and second-guessing?

Timothy Ferriss

#17. There's a danger and a beauty to the moment which seems out of time. It pierces something deep inside of him, bypassing his rationale, and it touches his very core. In a sudden shock of illumination, and of knowing, he recognizes this woman is his destiny, and their fates are intertwined.

Scarlett Amaris

#18. My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.

Stan Getz

#19. The love and compassion of Jesus christ is not understood and felt by devils.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#20. Big matches on the big stage are often decided at the back.

Oliver Kahn

#21. The purpose of life is Joy.

Esther Hicks

#22. There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts - just don't enter anything. They don't distract you - you get distracted. Nothing exists in itself as a distraction - it is you who get distracted. Why?

Mooji

#23. God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade