Interstices Quotes

#1. I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.

Samuel R. Delany

#2. The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

George Santayana

#3. They, the women, were like the gargoyles, Mattie thought. Respected in words, but hidden from view of those who ran the city and managing to live in the darkness, in the secret interstices of life.

Ekaterina Sedia

#4. We are in the interstices. In the intervals. We are that which moves between the spaces. Which conjures up the spaces.

Gabriel Josipovici

#5. Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [ ... ]
Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities.

Samuel Johnson

#6. Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.

Mark Leyner

#7. I hate it that she has so insinuated herself into the interstices of my mind that I can never root her out. And most of all, I hate that at the end of my life I feel compelled to ask, "How'd I do, Mama?".

Irvin D. Yalom

#8. In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the
culture.

Adrienne Rich

#9. One of the many pleasures of 'Versailles' is the way in which it seems to emanate not only from the vexed inner being of Marie Antoinette but from the interstices between what we imagine of her and what she was.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#10. I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

Veronica Roth

#11. Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them.

Brandi Glanville

#12. A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
Into the main of waters.

William Shakespeare

#13. Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Emile M. Cioran

#14. The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

#15. Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.

Sandra Bullock

#16. Perhaps the most dangerous people in the world are the ones who believe in right and wrong but what they ascribe to as "right" and "wrong" is completely insane. They are bad with the conviction that they are good. That idea is the impetus behind evil.

Heather O'Neill

#17. I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.

Terry Jones

#18. When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

Donna Tartt

#19. To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20)

Victoria Moran

#20. Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them ...

Benjamin Rush

#21. I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

Maajid Nawaz