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Quotes About Intersection

Look where we may, the dark threads and the light cross each other perpetually in the texture of human life.
~ Wilkie Collins
Happenstance intersecting with received wisdom produces something entirely new and significant.
~ William Boyd
It was as if this early promiscuous mingling of races and ideas, modes of dress and ways of living, was something that was on no one's agenda and suited nobody's version of events. All sides seemed, for different reasons, to be slightly embarrassed by this moment of crossover, which they preferred to pretend had never happened. It is, after all, always easier to see things in black and white.
~ William Dalrymple
They travelled crosstown now; the cab could rush fast down each block of the continuous alley, pausing only at the intersections where, to the right, canyonniched, the rumor of Grandlieu Street swelled and then faded in repetitive and indistinguishable turmoil, flicking on and past as though the cab ran along the rimless periphery of a ghostly wheel spoked with light and sound.
~ William Faulkner
How could one not think of the stories we all grew up on, that surely the Ul Qomans grew up on too? Ul Qoman man and Bes? maid, meeting in the middle of Copula Hall, returning to their homes to realise that they live, grosstopically, next door to each other, spending their lives faithful and alone, rising at the same time, walking crosshatched streets close like a couple, each in their own city, never breaching, never quite touching, never speaking a word across the border.
~ China Mieville
I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.
~ Chris Hughes
NETWORK     Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections JOHNSON'S
~ Henry Hitchings
A bridge has no allegiance to either side.
~ Les Coleman
Paris was the cross-roads of the world.
~ Lesley Blanch
I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.
~ Louie Schwartzberg
I'm interested in exploring the places where all media meet. As TV, Internet, art, games and movies all start moving towards the same point, I want to be part of inventing that space. I'd like to explore media that are traditionally seen as part of the mainstream but not necessarily utilize mainstream formulas.
~ Ryan Trecartin
South Florida's international connections mean there's a different kind of innovation here. We're able to intersect with a lot of brilliant people who are not associated with Silicon Valley.
~ Rony Abovitz
All life has two trajectories: the one linear and irreversible, the trajectory of ageing and dying, the other elliptical and reversible, a cycle of the same forms in a sequence which knows neither childhood, death nor the unconscious, and which leaves nothing behind. This sequence is constantly intersecting with the other, and occasionally erases all traces of it at a stroke.
~ Jean Baudrillard
A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There's a chance that I'm not here at all, that all the parts of me, running along all the choices I did and didn't make, for a moment brush against each other. That I am still an evangelist in the North, as well as the person who ran away. Perhaps for a while these two selves have been confused. I have not gone forward or back in time, but across in time, to something I might have been, playing itself out.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
~ Waris Ahluwalia
I like to combine different aspects in my work, to cover different areas, but I do see them as being separate.
~ Bruce Nauman
'Journey' is a way for us to explore the crossing, the intersection of our lives between each other.
~ Jenova Chen
The limits of binary thinking are spooky enough
~ Toni Cade Bambara
country bumps into the Jicarilla Apache
~ Tony Hillerman
The red light changed the color of her shirt, and her faded jeans, and her face. Her hair was disheveled, her expression intent, and, taken all together, she looked absolutely beautiful to Jim Chee. It would be a lot better, he thought, if friends didn't look like that.
~ Tony Hillerman
creating paradoxes that are clearly apparent on the border.
~ Paul Theroux
We were brought together by two stories that barely even shook hands with each other in the midst of everything that happened.
~ Unknown
Some people make a separate argument about the red light cameras. They say it just changes the type of crash that's most likely to occur at an intersection.
~ Robert James Thomson