Charles Dickens Quotes
It seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.
Charles Dickens
Quotes to Explore
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.
E. O. Wilson
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When I write 'paradise' I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
Edward Abbey
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Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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In defeating terror, Israel’s cause is our cause.
Hillary Clinton
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I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
Jim Morrison
The Doors
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I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.
Ursula Andress
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider’s web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.
Pablo Picasso
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We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind.
Rabindranath Tagore
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It seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.
Charles Dickens
