Transit Rachel Cusk Quotes

#1. I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.

Prince Fielder

#2. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

Paulo Coelho

#3. As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit.

Henri Nouwen

#4. Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

Guillaume Apollinaire

#5. The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

Seneca The Younger

#6. No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or 'real' art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

Chris Ware

#7. Even with some of the best action films like The Bourne Ultimatum, which is a great action film with a great chase sequence, so much of it is computer-generated. But that doesn't bother me. I think it works. It's fantastic.

William Friedkin

#8. The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.

William Manchester

#9. Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#10. When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

Malala Yousafzai