Quotes About Palimpsest

#1. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.

George Orwell

#2. Language is an archaeological vehicle ... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Russell Hoban

#3. When all the world was palimpsest, it was a perfect palindrome.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.

M. E. W. Sherwood

#5. The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

Teju Cole

#6. What's left is palimpsest - one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

Natasha Trethewey

#7. It was too full of love. Nothing could shift it. Nothing could turn it from itself. When all the world was palimpsest, it was a perfect palindrome. Inviolate.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. They discovered one of the richest archaeological landscapes in the region, if not the world; a palimpsest of Neolithic, Edomite, Nabataean, Roman, Byzantine, Crusader, and Islamic material remains. This

Charles River Editors

#9. It is as if the Caru'ee were able to perceive an echo of the past, and unconsciously, as they built upon a palimpsest of books written long ago and long forgotten, chanced to stumble upon an essence of meaning that could not be lost, no matter how much time had passed.

Ken Liu

#10. Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#11. In other words, time was a kind of palimpsest, traces of the past peeking through the present, only to be written over in the future again.

Melissa De La Cruz

#12. Madeleine L'Engle said, "the great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."58 I think the same is true for churches. Each one stays with us, even after we've left, adding layer after layer to the palimpsest of our faith.

Rachel Held Evans

#13. Time isn't circular," she said to Dr. Kellet. "It's like a ... palimpsest.

Kate Atkinson

#14. The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

Pat Barker

#15. In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.

Cormac McCarthy

#16. Threads of power and domination a palimpsest of greed

Bell Hooks

#17. Every inch of ground on this planet is a palimpsest, scraped clean and overwritten a million times, leaving behind just as many ghosts.

Seanan McGuire

#18. Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

A.C. Grayling

#19. We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten to one, and weigh, all told, about three pounds - the same as our brain.

Michael Specter

#20. Money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth.

Olivia Mellan

#21. Kinds of water drown us. Kinds of water do not.

Anne Carson

#22. It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.

Stephen Crane

#23. Living organically is my way of feeling connected to the earth and my own humanity. It's how I feel balanced and at peace with the planet.

John Grogan

#24. When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

Albert Einstein

#25. They want only their private toys and candies, and will not share.

Catherynne M Valente

#26. I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program.

James Bernard Frost

#27. The History of computers is amazing... people which tell the story are looking like they are having fun.

Deyth Banger

#28. Do you know what a thirteen-year-old girl can do when she is alone and frightened and believes she is right?

Catherynne M Valente

#29. Stay alert!" I told Blackjack. "I've got an idea." Oh, I hate your ideas.

Rick Riordan

#30. Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.

Alexander McCall Smith

#31. The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.

Dexter Palmer

#32. Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#33. Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours, if you care enough about me to take it.

Willa Cather