Palpitant Quotes

#1. It was hot; heat quivered up from the asphalt, giving to the familiar buildings about the square a nimbus quality, a quality of living and palpitant chiaroscuro.

William Faulkner

#2. Now I am a genius; before that I was a drudge.

Niccolo Paganini

#3. It is majestic, this love affair of ours, so powerful and regal. It is the kind of love that fairtales are born of. The kind that often ends in tragedy.

Addison Moore

#4. When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Even a fool is wise after an event.

Albert Einstein

#6. My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.

Irwin Shaw

#7. You could have told me yourself that you found someone else, instead I heard it through the grapevine.

Gladys Knight

#8. It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.

Lemony Snicket

#9. It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

Garrett Hedlund

#10. There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.

Michael D. Barnes

#11. Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,/A secret that my daddy said was just between us."/He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then./It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen.

George Strait

#12. The burden isn't that everything has to be a book. It's that everything can be a book. And doesn't count as life until it is.

Philip Roth

#13. Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

Pema Chodron

#14. No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

Samuel Johnson

#15. It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

Arthur Dove

#16. We mock the things we are to be.

Mel Brooks