Torgesen 1997 Quotes

#1. If a man seeks to drink enough to blind his conscience, tis acquavit or nothing.

Lilith Saintcrow

#2. If you are not in alignment with the moment, life is a struggle. Really, all you have to do is take responsibility for your inner alignment with now.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

Scarlett Thomas

#4. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.

Herman Melville

#5. I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Jennifer Weiner

#6. It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach

Diana Gabaldon

#7. I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

Jack Ma

#8. When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.

Wayne Thiebaud

#9. It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#10. Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."
We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock.

Lewis Mumford