Rhizome Quotes

#1. Thank you to Giulia Fani, Joan Spence and my sister for the rooms and desks they loaned me.

Moez Surani

#2. men cannot know each other till they have 'eaten salt together';

Aristotle.

#3. The stars are reflected from within the black water in the cistern. I find comfort in the omen I glean from this: light in the darkness, truth when it seems there is none.

Alice Hoffman

#4. The notion of "cause and effect" is sometimes useful in real life, and it can even be interesting in art, but I'm more interested in "cause and cause" or "effect and effect" or "and and and".

Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff

#5. You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

Garry Winogrand

#6. I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over.

Sylvia Day

#7. I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment

Stedman Graham

#8. The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.

Rajeev Kurapati

#9. Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?

William Shakespeare

#10. I do not pursue yesterday's wishes, for you are true. No illusions can illustrate your illustrious truth. My Queen, just look at you.

Delano Johnson

#11. The wind fights in the treetops; the leaves move in a hundred dialects of green...
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Fredrik Backman

#12. I paid too much for it, but it's worth it.

Samuel Goldwyn

#13. I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

Anton Yelchin

#14. I've seen many a small life meet its doom at the end of a beak in our yard, not just beetles and worms but salamanders and wild-eyed frogs. (The "free-range vegetarian hens" testimony on an egg-carton label is perjury, unless someone's trained them with little shock collars.)

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.

Ethan Zuckerman