Quotes About Lacuna

#1. Contemporary novels can have a fleeting existence within the current multiplication of medias and the technological rapidity with which art is delivered and consumed. A cultural lacuna has opened, one that needs arresting.

Tom Cardamone

#2. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters.

Elizabeth Warren

#3. Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.

Toni Morrison

#6. She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there. It shows in the way she places a seashell on a window sill, a red-painted chair in the corner: she is practiced in the art of creating a still life and taking up residence inside it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. Books can tell you almost everything that mankind knows. Or imagines.

Liz Braswell

#9. Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

Swami Vivekananda

#10. In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe.

Don DeLillo

#11. The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. Love. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do anything great, it's only so we'll be loved ourselves. Maybey just for ten minutes.

Barbara Kingsolver

#13. Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring trees. As it was in the beginning, so it is every morning of the world.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. People ask without wanting to know.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.

Barbara Kingsolver

#16. Lacuna peered at my shirt. "Aer-O-Smith. Arrowsmith. Does the shirt belong to your weapon dealer?"
"No."
"Then why do you wear the shirt of someone else's weapon dealer?

Jim Butcher

#17. Tony Blair has always said he will be judged by history. Now Alastair Campbell is history we await his judgment.

Rory Bremner

#18. Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.
Lacuna

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. How had she ever thought his blue eyes placid as a lake? But there was untold power in any water: to buoy, to drown, to toss, to carry one to the safety of shore.

Julie Anne Long

#20. Human beings are very unpredictable in relations and there are no written agreements ... Unlike in business transactions ...

Honeya

#21. I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

Junot Diaz

#22. When the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

Barbara Kingsolver

#23. The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people ... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

Robert Mugabe