Upontherim Quotes

#1. Thinking, one could say, is something we do only when we are no good at an activity.

John Coates

#2. In a reality known as the garden of beautiful eden,
Adam is dreaming about his sinful children on earth.
He is struggling to wake up from a terrible nightmare.

Toba Beta

#3. As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.

Noel Wells

#4. No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

C.S. Lewis

#5. All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

Annie E. Clark

#6. I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called.

Howard Dean

#7. I listened to a lot of old school, golden era music. It gave me a lot of insight on how to rap and give my all.

Big K.R.I.T.

#8. Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

George Herbert

#9. But what a superb game the three of us are playing. Who is the demon? Who is the liar? Who the human being? Who the cleverest? Who the strongest? Who loves the most? Are we three immense egos fighting for domination or for love, or are these things mixed?

Anais Nin

#10. I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'

Steve Perry

#11. Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Evelyn Waugh

#12. As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

Adam Jones

#13. Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?

Annie Dillard

#14. Protect yourself from your own thoughts.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#15. I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.

Karl Ove Knausgard