Sedaris Siblings Quotes

#1. No! no arresting the vast wheel of time,
That round and round still turns with onward might,
Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night
Of an unknown hereafter.

Charles Cowden Clarke

#2. Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.

Xenocrates

#3. You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

M. Night Shyamalan

#4. I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down.

Joanna Newsom

#5. The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

Sri Chinmoy

#6. Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Giving people presents is such an intimate act; you're basically telling them who you think they are,

Ruth Reichl

#8. Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

Hannah Nordhaus

#9. Kate said, her eyes very large, 'I find your rudeness abominable and your politeness obnoxious but my goodness, Francis Crawford, what terrifies me more than a jungle of tigers is the moment when you look worried.

Dorothy Dunnett

#10. Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it

Thurston Moore

#11. Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. The grief you cry out from
draws you toward union.
Your pure sadness
that wants help
is the secret cup.

Rumi

#13. The blight of office cubes housing lawyers and lobbyists had popped up like chokeweeds in the manicured lawn of the family homestead.

B.V. Lawson