Scintillation Quotes

#1. All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. Listen to me, Violet. I want more than this. I want to lie next to you at night and worship you. I want to watch you by day and see what you're capable of, you astonishing woman, you bloody beautiful thing. I want to count every scintillation of you.

Beatriz Williams

#3. The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

Abraham Kuyper

#4. The autumn stars had come out, incredible in number and brilliance, twinkling and almost blinking because of the dust stirred up by the earthquake and the wind, so that the whole sky seemed to tremble, a shaking of diamond chips, a scintillation of sunlight on a black sea.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#6. Come on now, laddie," Dunneldeen said. "Just hold on and they'll pull you up to the plane. 'Tis a wee bit cold for a swim.

L. Ron Hubbard

#7. Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

Kenneth Koch

#8. Innocence is suffering
and the loss of that innocence
is something to fear.

Diane Wakoski

#9. To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need for our civ ilisation; but
no such system has a chance while men are so unhappy that mutual extermination
seems to them less dreadful than continued endurance of the light of day

Bertrand Russell

#10. There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.

Romulus Linney

#11. How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?

Paul Gauguin

#12. It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house.

Samuel Rutherford

#13. If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

Annie Leibovitz

#14. Life will throw hurtles in your path from time to time. And when it does, just remember one thing; God already taught you how to jump. Leap with confidence and if you have to look back, use your experiences as a source of strength.

William Davrick

#15. There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate.

Marco Rubio

#16. I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.

Lauren Bacall

#17. The fact that 'attention seeking' is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

Laurie Penny

#18. Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.

Colleen Atwood

#19. I sat at the computer, my eyes closed, elbows against the desk, and listened to a voice singing in a minor key.

John Green