Illusional Background Quotes

#1. It's a hard concept to hold on to--the idea that there was a time before us. A time before time.

In the beginning there was nothing. And then there was everything.

Nicola Yoon

#2. He did not like illness, he distrusted it, as he distrusted the road without signposts.
("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")

Eudora Welty

#3. A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we've seen with the antivaccination movement.

Emily Matchar

#4. What is the "Once upon a time" of your brand story? Ask yourself this: "How does what I'm building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

Laura Busche

#5. Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. You can't lead if you don't know what you were made for. You can't know what you were made for if you don't ask the one who made you! Know your creator; know yourself!

Israelmore Ayivor

#7. If you told people you were moving to Ohio, they wouldn't congratulate you. They'd say "OH WHY would you move there?" as if that was something that happened to you and you had to deal with.

Celeste Ng

#8. about to knock again when the inside door is pulled open to reveal a sinewy woman dressed in what appears to be layers of old sweaters and an ankle-length denim skirt. Her long hair held back in an elastic that leaves the ends bunched and brittle as the head of a broom. Brown eyes wide and alive,

Andrew Pyper

#9. The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.

Bayazid Bastami

#10. We're making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves.

Clive Barker

#11. Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

Gregory Maguire