Intermission Time Quotes

#1. I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!

Henry Miller

#2. If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.

E. E. Cummings

#3. Black_Venus: Here it goes:
Curious mosaic
Continental drift
Parabolic metaphor
Elemental rift
Time and transposition
Conscious intermission
Assertion?
Desertion
Black_Venus: That's all I have so far. You finish it.
Me: How about Spanish Inquisition.

Julie Anne Peters

#4. I used to wonder what I was doing wrong. Now I know: just about everything.

Raegan Butcher

#5. For amusement, they ingest whatever flammable liquids are at hand and sing badly at the top of their lungs.

Ransom Riggs

#6. That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#7. He had the muscular definition of a man who had spent his life restraining elephants in heat.

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#8. There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.

Julian Jaynes

#9. Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

Laozi

#10. It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.

Margaret Atwood

#11. Maybe, if God is fire, we are a grove of ponderosa pines. Without the heat and burn of God's flame, our pinecones would remain closed tight around the seeds that are needed for our thriving and growth and new life.

Lauren F. Winner

#12. In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.

Socrates

#13. I trust people with my eyes and ears wide open.

Amit Abraham