Quotes About Nightwood

#1. Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness;

Djuna Barnes

#2. Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website.

Douglas Coupland

#3. His sanity is an unknown room: a known room is always smaller than an unknown.

Djuna Barnes

#4. I put the fun in funeral.

Gena Showalter

#5. The first thing I did on my diet was take the batteries out of the remote control and make myself get up and change the channel. That's probably the hardest exercise I did.

Stephen Furst

#6. One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.

George Benson

#7. Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.

John Boehner

#8. The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

Tom Verlaine

#9. There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation
purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

Djuna Barnes

#10. Believe that you are unique with infinite love and beauty in your soul.

Debasish Mridha

#11. No matter where and when you meet him you feel that he has come from some place-no matter from what place he has come-some country that he has devoured rather than resided in, some secret land that he has been nourished on but cannot inherit, for the Jew seems to be everythere from nowhere.

Djuna Barnes

#12. A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.

Jennifer Egan

#13. Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.

Heraclitus

#14. We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

Gale Norton

#15. Bad bosses chew-out in public for the purpose of showing their dominance).

Rory Miller

#16. Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.

Djuna Barnes

#17. No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

Djuna Barnes