Gravity S Rainbow Quotes

#1. I like Catch-22, Gravity's Rainbow and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, for instance, because the authors of those three surrealistic novels - Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon and Robert Pirsig - invented their own rules, knowing that the old ones wouldn't do the job they had in mind.

William Zinsser

#2. What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
Gravity's Rainbow, V699

Thomas Pynchon

#3. I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

Ann Richards

#4. A broken heart is a whole heart. A leaning ladder is a straight ladder.

Simcha Raz

#5. Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep up with gravity.

Rainbow Rowell

#6. Just about every available female
and some unavailable
seemed to think the way to his heart was through his blood sugar levels.

Kelly Moran

#7. I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#8. Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.

Werner Von Braun

#9. He was convinced he would keep his word. Not because he feared for his health, but because one cannot break a promise made to one's guardian angel. And he resumed the climb.

Andrea Camilleri

#10. Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

Stan Musial

#11. Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

Camryn Manheim

#12. In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain.

George Orwell

#13. Like a kite, carried by the wind, he followed her into the fluffy white clouds of her imagination. He didn't think her silly for living in the sky, but rather, he marveled at the wondrous life she had created on the outskirts of reality. He knew her love would elevate him to new emotional heights.

Jaeda DeWalt

#14. It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. Your words like wings gravity they defy.
My heart like a leaf on the wind catchin' rides.
We make too much sense to foolishly pass it by.
So I'm taking a rainbow up to the 5th floor.
Steppin' out to see that you're really worth more.

Group 1 Crew