Gyre Quotes

#1. Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Lewis Carroll

#2. Does the half-life of information correlate with the decay of our attention? Is the Internet a kind of temporal gyre, sucking up stories, like geodrift, into its orbit? What is its gyre memory? How do we measure the half-life of its drift?

Ruth Ozeki

#3. There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

David Suzuki

#4. Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
The Second Coming

Wb Yeats

#5. Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. My mind is like a gyre, and odd juxtapositions happen.

Ruth Ozeki

#7. Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

Ronald Blythe

#8. I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

Genevieve Gorder

#9. Anne tried to bite her tongue, but she was finding her mouth bloody too often.

Janice Lane Palko

#10. Yes. Reyn is our resident horse master. He has an excellent seat."
I grinned. "I've noticed."
Reyn's face tightened and Nell flushed, looking embarrassed. "It's an equestrian term."
"Really? I thought you were talking about his ass.

Cate Tiernan

#11. Work is just a part of our Life, not vice versa. So Live life full time, work work, part time.

Vikrmn

#12. The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

T. S. Eliot

#13. Here and there, a form stirred feebly, victim of war's sorcery, struggling against the enchantment of death.

Diana Gabaldon

#14. It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word! ... We read in Dead Men's books! We laugh at Dead Men's jokes, and cry at Dead Men's pathos! ... Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a Dead Man's icy hand obstructs us!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#15. I hang my head over these knuckles, over these pale, veined wrists which I hardly recognize as mine, finding myself overcome by a new enemy, one I never expected: the chill of old age.

Uvi Poznansky

#16. The secret of mysticism, therefore, is to feel, think, speak, and act at the same time, for then all that is said, or felt, or done, becomes perfect.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#17. Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

George Henry Lewes