Untransposed Quotes

#1. Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Simone Weil

#2. I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

Kent Haruf

#3. Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase.

Phil Harris

#4. If I see a beautiful woman walking down the street, a pretty lady, I'll yell, 'Homo!' She can't get pissed, and I still get the pleasure of yelling at her.

Brian Posehn

#5. We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do ... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.

Evelyn Underhill

#6. I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#7. Crying all the way to success is better than smiling all the way to failure.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.

Muhammad

#9. It's always been you and me, James. That's why I can't kill you, and you can't kill me. Because even if it means the end of the world, I love you too much.

Cristin Terrill