Matins And Lauds Quotes

#1. You may whisper a word or two to God on my behalf at Matins and Lauds, if you'll be so kind. If he turns a deaf ear to you, small use the rest of us wearing out our knee-bones.

Ellis Peters

#2. an unbroken line of unrelated people

Cathleen Schine

#3. Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

George Takei

#4. Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#5. Hours of the day were named for the hours of prayer: matins around midnight; lauds around three A.M.; prime, the first hour of daylight, at sunrise or about six A.M.; vespers at six in the evening; and compline at bedtime.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#6. These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere ... The Unnamable

Samuel Beckett

#7. The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.

Georg Simmel

#8. Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Charles Bukowski