Forrest Gander Quotes

#1. Forrest Gander: Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green flies of the usual off the tablecloth. To pay attention.

Brian Christian

#2. The wealth of time we wastage, is worth much more than all the natural resources we have on the earth.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Love solves nothing, but your love made me appear to myself.

Forrest Gander

#4. In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.

Forrest Gander

#5. There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline.

Forrest Gander

#6. But to explore the invisible and to hear the unheard are very different from reviving the dead: Baudelaire is therefore first among seers, the king of poets, a true God.

Arthur Rimbaud

#7. The threat of rain appears to have nothing to do with Joao Elvas's desire to be alone, and one must not forget that, strange as it may seem, some men can spend their entire life alone and enjoy solitude, especially if it is raining and their crust is hard.

Jose Saramago

#8. Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Samuel Johnson

#9. I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

Forrest Gander

#10. Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.

Chief Seattle

#11. I would love for someone to offer me a serious part in something. I don't know if I could even pull it off, but I would like to be the cowboy that rides off and someone shoots him off the horse in the middle of town. Just a serious role. It wouldn't have to be a big one.

Jeff Foxworthy

#12. He was her worst nightmare and fondest wish all wrapped up in a damn Boy Scout.

Taryn Elliott

#13. There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

George Borrow

#14. Let me tell you something about meditation. At the absolute center, is the vortex we are spun from like clay, there is a shaping hand which is neither Godlike nor peaceful as you imagine.

Forrest Gander