Inklings Quotes

#1. Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.

Manprit Kaur

#2. We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure of this that we will undermine our own inklings of joy, blunting the pain we think awaits.

Anneli Rufus

#3. Honor your desire for a new life. Say yes to the small inklings of interest and curiosity that present themselves each day.

Lynn A. Robinson

#4. The author observes of the Inklings, "they make a perfect compass rose of faith: talking the Catholic, Lewis the "mere Christian," Williams the Anglican, Barfield the esotericist.

Philip Zaleski

#5. I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles, if I had to. The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

John Updike

#6. The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment.

Alister E. McGrath

#7. All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

H.G.Wells

#8. The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.

Philip Zaleski

#9. Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.

Eudora Welty

#10. Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment.

Philip Zaleski

#11. The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.

Reggie Watts

#12. My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

Gary Kemp

#13. When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.

Ben Lerner

#14. God knows I tried my best to learn the ways of this world, even had inklings we could be glorious; but after all that's happened, the inkles ain't easy anymore. I mean - what kind of fucken life is this?

D.B.C. Pierre

#15. Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.

Priscilla Shirer

#16. This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones.

Philip Zaleski

#17. Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.

Iain Banks

#18. There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.

T.D. Jakes

#19. Looking at the room, I can tell that you are the most beautiful girl in the room.
(In the whole wide room)
And when you're on the street
(Depending on the street)
I bet you are definitely in the top three

Flight Of The Conchords

#20. (But he could not bring himself to say he loved her; not in so many words.)

Virginia Woolf

#21. I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they're doing. People don't look at me. They don't even know I'm there.

Jerry Seinfeld

#22. When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

Richard Dawkins

#23. Employees are shielded from being healthcare consumers because they rely on their
employers' priorities and judgment instead of their own to select insurance.

Archelle Georgiou

#24. I think nothing, at an objective level, is either right or wrong.

Karan Bajaj

#25. Never ask for small loans.

Aristotle Onassis

#26. (Alexander)'Sometimes I forget all this for months on end. Sometimes I think of it day and night. Sometimes I think, unless I find out the truth of it, I shall go mad.'
(Hephaistion)'That's stupid. You've got me now. Do you think I'd let you go mad?

Mary Renault

#27. The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

B.R. Ambedkar