Fluxions Quotes

#1. Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

E. M. Forster

#2. And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ... ?

George Berkeley

#3. Abide with me, fleshling, and I shall teach you to run with the fluxions.

James K. Morrow

#4. Memories were like tomb paintings, thought the Major, the colors still vivid no matter how many layers of mud and sand time deposited. Scrape at them and they come up all red and blazing.

Helen Simonson

#5. Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

Madeleine L'Engle

#6. For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried.

Lauren Oliver

#7. It's very rare you get a director who's that invested in the actors. So yeah, when 'Little Fish' came around, there wasn't much negotiation!

Martin Henderson

#8. While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

Petrarch

#9. He took twelve pictures that day.
Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic," he said.
When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.

Patti Smith

#10. Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back.

Meat Loaf

#11. The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

Gunter Grass

#12. Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.

Don Meyer

#13. I had to grow up fast. I had a lot of obstacles to overcome. It made me a lot stronger, growing up like that.

Jevon Kearse