Umtouched Quotes

#1. You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lifted miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day umtouched, some old, lost sweet tasting time.

Colum McCann

#2. We are the next thing the Time Dragon is dreaming, and nothing to be done about it.

Gregory Maguire

#3. And when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.

N.K. Jemisin

#4. When your heart's been cut out, how's it going to feel knowing that you're the one who wielded the knife?

Peter David

#5. Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.

Auliq Ice

#6. Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

Adam Savage

#7. To be, contents his natural desire,
He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire;
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense
Weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Alexander Pope

#8. To celebrate someone else's life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. Like most nobility, he was self-centered as a gyroscope

Patrick Rothfuss

#10. Do you think she'll want to later? Rosalind, I mean, not Aunt Claire. I mean, I'm sure Aunt Claire could do football drills if she wanted to, but I'd rather have Ros - I mean ... Tommy had trailed off into an embarrassed silence. Skye

Jeanne Birdsall

#11. Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes.

Kevin McCarthy

#12. They spoke of age and decay. Of atrophy and ruin. Of the inevitability of loss and the futility of hope.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#13. You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.

Jenny Slate