Primum Mobile Quotes

#1. One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch
With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars
Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile
Coiled and gleaming to the end of space
And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds
To the last tooth of time, and the case closed.

John Ciardi

#2. Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

Otis Redding

#4. Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

Tommy Franks

#5. We are here as a reminder that the world is not better off without you.

Frank Iero

#6. The world needed changing - that I knew. Global warming threatened to give us all a lethal tan; war and poverty decimated whole nations; crops worldwide were shriveling; even our brethren beasts menaced us with their monkey pox and bird flu and mad cow disease.

Jeff Deck

#7. Denys understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.

Paula McLain

#8. All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

Ayn Rand

#9. This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

George W. Bush

#10. I was taught to watch for gentle souls, as they've not the wit to look after themselves.

Erika Swyler

#11. Part of what we are is whom we've loved.

Parke Godwin

#12. The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.

Yasujiro Ozu

#13. I used to pessimistically think I was going to die alone, but now I optimistically know I'm going to die hoping to meet someone.

Dana Gould

#14. Death," she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place.

Vicki Pettersson