Perfect Sense 2011 Quotes

#1. Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired ... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.

Samuel Johnson

#2. I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

Anna Deavere Smith

#3. Mina and I fear to be idle, so we have been over all the diaries again and again. Somehow, although the reality seem greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less.

Bram Stoker

#4. I bought a house, it's a two bedroom house, but I think it's up to me to decide how many bedrooms there are. This bedroom has an oven in it. This bedroom has a lot of people sitting around watching TV. This bedroom is over in that other guy's house.

Mitch Hedberg

#5. Over these things I could not see;
These were the things that bounded me;
And I could touch them with my hand,
Almost, I thought, from where I stand.
And all at once things seemed so small
My breath came short, and scarce at all.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#6. If you've ever liked an artist or someone who then does something or is accused of something extremely corrupt, and your moral conscience won't allow you to accept that artist, the truth is then that creates a void in your life. Because then something you loved was taken from you.

Jerrod Carmichael

#7. He smiled at the sudden image of Prometheus tossing cars from one side of the bridge to the other to build his barrier. He heard the tiny tinkle of glass and wondered if being tossed across the Golden Gate Bridge by an Elder was covered by insurance.

Michael Scott

#8. There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.

Mantak Chia

#9. What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen.

George Orwell

#10. Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

Camille Henrot

#11. We confused the indoors with intimacy and electric heating with connection. Every night seemed like the last night because we would all freeze to death shortly.

Heather O'Neill

#12. He found it difficult to discuss any of his activities, which seemed to him no more than the hole through which he was falling.

Peter Ackroyd

#13. He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was meaningful, of course. But it was lonely.

Adelheid Manefeldt

#14. A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

Arthur Schopenhauer