Horizon Quotes - Page 9

• Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in a match. The commonplace is the habitual, and the habitual is a mystery that has grown stale from sense-insistence. Life undulates; there is no such thing as a level; a straight line is a myth, and all directions are indirections.

  Benjamin De Casseres

  Eye, Swimming, Cells

  "Chameleon: Being a Book of My Selves".

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• It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

  Tan Le

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?

  Rick Yancey

  Dream, Stars, Adventure

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• The magnificent thing about her [Amelia Earhart] is, in the eyes of the world, she simply never died. Her fear never witnessed, her failure never recorded, her shiny twin-engine Electra never recovered. Earhart's legacy of inspiration is amplified because her adventure is perpetual. We don't think of her as dead; we think of her as missing. She is forever flying, somewhere beyond Lae, over that limitless blue horizon.

  Josh Gates

  Inspiration, Adventure, Eye

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• The colors are stunning. In a single view, I see - looking out at the edge of the earth: red at the horizon line, blending to orange and yellow, followed by a thin white line, then light blue, gradually turning to dark blue and various gradually darker shades of gray, then black and a million stars above. It's breathtaking.

  William C. McCool

  Stars, Dark, Light

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• The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that is compromised, something that needs to be rescued or made - these matters preoccupy the third world writer. It is seductive for a Marxist understanding of literary practice and production in the sense that it says that material culture determines literary output.

  Mark McMorris

  Practice, Seductive, Understanding

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Book, Cooking, Great Gifts

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• There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Air, Together

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.146, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.

  Wole Soyinka

  People, Important, Function

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• An event horizon, or the point of no return, is only a byproduct of the bending of space. However, electricity and magnetism, by themselves, have no event horizon. It gets complicated, however, if a black hole has charge, and then this new solution does have an event horizon.

  Michio Kaku

  Space, Black, Events

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• Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Writing, Get Better

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• Once again, my colleague Stephen Hawking has upset the apple cart. The event horizon surrounding a black hole was once though to be an imaginary sphere. But recent theories indicate that it may actually be physical, maybe even a sphere of fire. But I don't trust any of these calculations until we have a full-blown string theory calculation, since Einstein's theory by itself is incomplete.

  Michio Kaku

  Apples, Fire, Upset

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• If we want TRULY EXTRAORDINARY VISION then you have to continually expand your horizons, take risks.  If we don’t push our edge we’ll never expand our view.. It’s not trespassing to go beyond your own boundaries.

  Dewitt Jones

  Views, Risk, Vision

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• Bianca Nazario stands at the end of the world. The firmament above is as blue as the summer skies of her childhood, mirrored in the waters of la caldera; but where the skies she remembers were bounded by mountains, here on Sky there is no horizon, only a line of white cloud.

  David Moles

  Summer, Sky, White

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• When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Beach, Jesus, Ocean

  Corrie Ten Boom, Charles R. Swindoll (2002). “Messages of God's Abundance”, p.21, Zondervan

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• I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.

  Jean Sibelius

  Sleep, Orchestra, Wonderful

  Jean Sibelius' remarks to Jussi Jalas, August 27, 1943.

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• But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an environment; atoms, not bits. My books are not dead weight, they are live weight — matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the silliest. They do not block the horizon; they draw it. They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in one’s own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Beautiful, Wall, Block

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• Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons.

  Vaclav Smil

  Sky, Looks, Littles

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• When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Disappointment, Joy, Doubt

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• For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light-our atmosphere. Obviously this was not the ocean of air I had been told it was so many times in my life. I was terrified by its fragile appearance.

  Ulf Merbold

  Ocean, Dark, Space

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• Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

  Greg Iles

  Approach, Sooner Or Later

  Greg Iles (2002). “Dead Sleep”, p.257, Penguin

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• It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

  Anton Chekhov

  Time, Artist, Thinking

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• Some people live their lives as if each day will be their last. Some approach love the same way, in a desperate attempt to outrun the tiny changes
  or huge ones that are always looming on each of our horizons. But the sense of urgency that comes from wanting to experience life and love to the
  fullest can force decisions that are not always in your best interests or anyone else's, for that matter. In fact, sometimes facing the consequences of
  your choices can be even worse than death. You may live only once, but you don't necessarily want it to feel like forever.

  Tonya Hurley

  Life And Love, People, Choices

  Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Lovesick”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

  Romare Bearden

  Discovery, Finding Yourself, Painting

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• Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
  Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
  Star of the east the horizon adorning,
  Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.

  Reginald Heber

  Morning, Stars, Son

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”, p.17

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