Unspooling Quotes

#1. The unspooling of the skein of the genome has effectively abolished racism and creationism, and the amazing findings of Hubble and Hawking have allowed us to guess at the origins of the cosmos. But how much more addictive is the familiar old garbage about tribe and nation and faith.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts.

Gillian Flynn

#3. Until I came and saw the water falling,
its lace legs and its womanly arms sheeting down,
while something howled like thunder,
over the rocks,
all day and all night -
unspooling.

Mary Oliver

#4. We see the span of her life unspooling in colorful threads and we chase it, wrapping it around our hands as more tumbles out. She's her mother's age now. Double her age. Our age. You're our mother. We're climbing inside of you.

Brit Bennett

#5. Nothing stops when we're gone," Lydia said. "The seasons don't stop. This river doesn't stop. Vultures will keep flying in circles. The lives of the people we love won't stop. Time keeps unspooling. Stories keep getting written.

Jeff Zentner

#6. That swirling devil's clot, that black maelstrom of cylindrical majesty. It is a swirling gray spider egg unspooling, filled with rotten teeth. A biblical monster, God's vengeance. Whirring

Noah Hawley

#7. You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

Henry Miller

#8. Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.

Justina Chen

#9. To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

Ron Carter

#11. I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention.

Jim Sturgess

#12. Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.

Therese Of Lisieux

#13. Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

Carl Sandburg

#14. I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

Jesse Stuart

#15. The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.

George Soros