Sacer Quotes

#1. When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is in truth a ritual of renewal and revival on an intimate scale - a small rebirth of well-being on a daily basis.

Robert Fulghum

#2. Maybe I liked his sculpture more when I couldn't get close to it, had to see it from a fixed position through a pane of glass, so that I had to project myself into the encounter with its three-dimensionality.

Ben Lerner

#3. We just weren't a family that gathered around the TV. I grew up in a town where everyone was outside all the time. I was mostly in Connecticut; I spent a lot of time in Tennessee in the summers, but I was in Stamford, Connecticut.

Christopher Abbott

#4. To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

Eric Williams

#5. I would love to do Evita or Elphaba in Wicked. But I am more excited to originate a role on Broadway.

Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

#6. May I know your name, sir?"
The smile rearranged his face under the terrible scars. "Nezahualcoyotl. Michel Nezahualcoyotl. Charmed.

Elizabeth Bear

#7. A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth and every man is free

Langston Hughes

#8. Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, So, you're back from Moscow, eh?

P.G. Wodehouse

#9. Marriage isn't for you. It's not about you. Marriage is about the person you marry.

Seth Adam Smith

#10. You resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration.

Gregory Beale

#11. But ever since she returned to my life ... life doesn't make complete sense. But it definitely makes more sense than it used to.

Brad Meltzer

#12. The Term "a Criminal Lawyer" Is the Opposite of an Oxymoron

Carsten Stroud