Urning Quotes

#1. The nerve-system of many an Urning is the finest and the most complicated musical instrument in the service of the interior personality that can be imagined.

Otto De Joux

#2. How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#3. If I want to abide in this day, to make my home in it, I must only tear my eyes from tomorrow and look around. For there is a wholeness to this day that I do not want to miss.

Christie Purifoy

#4. My feeling is that if you can cook, I can teach you how to do television.

Bobby Flay

#5. How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?

Jandy Nelson

#6. He liked order and precision, and his crew knew it. He had hand-picked each and every one of them, and he'd never sailed with a finer group of men. Not that he would ever say it out loud, but they knew it.

Jeff Grubb

#7. Nothing comes from doing nothing.

William Shakespeare

#8. Do you even know women? They are the most complicated creatures on the planet. Just a single word can take your relationship from being happy to being so miserable that your balls crawl up your ass.

Milly Taiden

#9. I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

Susan Orlean

#10. When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.

Plotinus

#11. Denying your faith in the Lord was the ultimate no-no

Jennifer Mathieu

#12. A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.

Maurice Chevalier

#13. Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to the great world around it. Each elder is a philosopher of sorts, trying to sort out the meanings and gleanings of a life as well as the necessary implications of the presence of death.

Michael Meade

#14. I want to hide from it, that's what I want to do. I want to just close my eyes and let it pass by. Let it take the next man.

Raymond Carver