Starker Quotes

#1. The salt hung on his spirit like a frost,
The dead brine melted in him like a dew
Of winter, until nothing of himself
Remained, except some starker, barer self
In a starker, barer world, in which the sun
Was not the sun because it never shone
With bland complaisance ...

Wallace Stevens

#2. Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. Up high, biology vanishes to reveal a world shaped by the starker forces of geology and meteorology, the bare bones of the earth wrapped in sky.

Rebecca Solnit

#4. Indeed, love is beautiful, yet at the same time, it is a cruel punishment, starker than death.

Khaddam Ahmed Khan

#5. I don't want to be a saint, and would rather be a buffoon ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork you into adventure or, by the same token, may not.

S.J Perelman

#7. LifeParticles are the particles of Nothingness that have attributes of being and nonbeing, and the particles of energy and consciousness, which are the essence of Life.

Ilchi Lee

#8. Love is never wrong.

Melissa Etheridge

#9. Raw Living: Picking blackberries, beneath late afternoon sun; a sunset reminiscent of watermelon sangria, as the scent of honeysuckle accosts me and the ducks waddle into the lake. Thanking Mama Nature for her abundance. Loving this candied-sweet southern life.

Brandi L. Bates

#10. That's the trouble with not being in your own field: You don't take it seriously.

Richard Feynman

#11. (Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)

William T. Vollmann

#12. The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

Christopher Eccleston

#13. I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

Gary Johnson

#14. I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.

Robin Williams

#15. If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

Confucius

#16. What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay ... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself

Gautama Buddha

#17. Her voice froze on the second word, like a feather taking off in a sudden draft. Then it cooed and hovered and soared and eddied and the silent invitation of a smile picked delicately at the corners of her lips, very slowly, like a child trying to pick up a snowflake.

Raymond Chandler

#18. If he was dead, well, that was interesting, too.

Kate DiCamillo

#19. My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

Dr. Dre