sumovic’s most recent Quotables

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

...dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body

To thine own self be true.

Be the change that you want to see in the world.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Collaboration breeds success.

If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

There are three constants in life... Change, choice and principles.

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

No one is exempt from the call to find common ground.

You're never to young to start playing games, never too old to stop.

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that.