Submergence Quotes

#1. Author complains about the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

George F. Will

#2. Our identity is affected less and less by what we produce and more and more by what we consume.

Pete Sanders

#3. Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it does rain, the person in the cheap tent chances soaking in his sleeping bag, and possibly dying of hypothermia.

William T. Vollmann

#4. In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

Desmond Tutu

#5. Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness of eyes, and the harpsichord strings behind the kneecaps.

J.M. Ledgard

#6. I bear you my witness that the Savior is closer to us than you have any idea. He will be close to you and the powers divine will be at your side when you have nowhere else to turn.

Harold B. Lee

#7. When along the pavement,
Palpitating flames of life,
People flicker around me,
I forget my bereavement,
The gap in the great constellation,
The place where a star used to be

D.H. Lawrence

#8. You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.

Isabelle Holland

#9. I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

Jock Sturges

#10. There's something I really love about independent filmmaking. Everyone is a little bit more close-knit, and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department.

Thomas Ian Nicholas