Sanctorum Quotes

#1. The All is everywhere, and anywhere may become the seat of power. Any blade of grass may assume, in myth, the figure of the savior and conduct the questing wanderer into the sanctum sanctorum of his own heart.

Joseph Campbell

#2. To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a world where things go beep and ding and ring, where you've got mail and you've got messages, when I enter a library, I feel that I am still entering a temple.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#5. The funny thing about memory is that it can't be fully trusted, and yet, in the end, it's the only truth we have.

Mindscape

#6. An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game.

Larry King

#7. Her affection for everything she could love increased.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#8. The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.

Robert Anthony

#9. It is twenty-four years since I was a bride at old Green Gables - the happiest bride that ever was - and the wedding-veil of a happy bride brings good luck,

L.M. Montgomery

#10. I think to be a great quarterback, you have to have a great leadership, great attention to detail, and a relentless competitive nature. And that's what I try to bring to the table, and I have a long way to go. I'm still learning, and I'm still on a constant quest for knowledge.

Russell Wilson

#11. If you don't stick to your plan enough, and you're too seduced by whimsical notions and new ideas, you can kind of lose your train of thought and end up with something that doesn't have a solid through-line.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#12. Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.

Lawrence Summers

#13. We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.

Stephen Jay Gould

#14. Worry about right and wrong wasn't a concept he embraced. Right and wrong were ephemerals; they changed from every angle, from hour to hour, depending on which side of any of a thousand borders a soldier was born.

Nevada Barr

#15. I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

Ben Casnocha

#16. Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.

Lisa Kleypas

#17. What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

James M. Barrie

#18. I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

Bill Mauldin

#19. When I was very young I thought I was just like everyone else. I think it took me longer than most to realize I was different and even longer to realize that being different was what made me great

Tina J. Richardson