Serendib Quotes

#1. ... you don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously.
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor

John Barth

#2. My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

Doug Stanhope

#3. I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

Saul Bellow

#4. For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.

Albert Pike

#5. If one's husband had been married before and widowed - a fairly common condition - and a close relative of his first wife's died, the second wife was expected to engage in "complementary mourning" - a kind of proxy mourning on behalf of the deceased earlier partner.

Bill Bryson

#6. I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

Riccardo Tisci

#7. Like many young people, I believe I have potential to make a positive impact in the world.

Cameron Russell

#8. But though he lacked the gift of intimacy, in many ways his supportive love still came through to me. He somehow conveyed his belief in me without ever articulating it, and that was the single most sustaining thing in my life.

Katharine Graham

#9. What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.

Victor Hugo

#10. I know things might not work, and I know it's scary, but the things that are worth it are. It feels right.

Morgan Matson