Sarcophagi Project Quotes

#1. We know what boredom is: it is a dull
Impatience or a fierce velleity,
A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude,
To make or do. In the strict sense, of course,
We invent nothing, merely bearing witness
To what each morning brings again to light

Richard Wilbur

#2. Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.

Octavio Paz

#3. There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good.

Sarah J. Maas

#4. I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

A. N. Wilson

#5. Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

James Alan Gardner

#6. Sadistic serial killers feel their victims' pain in exactly the same way that you or I might feel it. They feel it cognitively and objectively. And they feel it emotionally and subjectively, too. But the difference between them and us is that they commute that pain to their own subjective pleasure.

Kevin Dutton

#7. I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

Miroslav Vitous

#8. Don't let your schedule rule you - just do what you gotta do - or don't do it if you don't want to do it. The paradoz about schedules is that they can either help keep you sane, or drive you insane. It's your choice.

Art Hochberg

#9. Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.

Joe Bob Briggs

#10. The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

Richard Wagner

#11. Anywhere art visits turns into a gorgeous place!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

Harvey Cushing

#13. Gratitude takes time. It's the fruit of experience. It still feels new to me, I haven't had it for that long. Gratitude came only after I'd passed through all the other feelings.

Michael W. Clune