Reassembling Quotes

#1. By transporting Asian species to North America, and North American species to Australia, and Australian species to Africa, and European species to Antarctica, we are, in effect, reassembling the world into one enormous supercontinent - what biologists sometimes refer to as the New Pangaea.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#2. Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry ... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart ... Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.

John Berger

#3. I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.

Max Burns

#4. Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

Chris Christie

#5. It's so strange to think: A year ago today, I was undoing my husband. Now I am almost done reassembling him.

Gillian Flynn

#6. Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.

Dennis Lehane

#7. The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.

Arne Glimcher

#8. I believe in any religion that puts treating people with respect and dignity above ritual and dogma.

Charles F. Glassman

#9. Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.

Zac Efron

#10. I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box.

But there is nothing that will ignite your soul like reading God's Word.

Rachel Wojnarowski

#11. Aim at nothing, and you get nowhere. Aim at something, and even in long odds you often get closer than you would otherwise.

Erik Wecks

#12. It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

Billy Corgan

#13. Can you love someone you don't trust?"
"Absolutely," he said. "I have a sister I wouldn't lend two copper lengths if I wanted them back. The problem with loving someone you don't trust is finding the right distance.

Daniel Abraham

#14. Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

Helmut Schoeck

#15. To me, there's no better way to stir the soul than through the power of the written word.

Jake Parent

#16. I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.

Joe Torre