Quotes About Revelation

Isn't it nice to discover that we're not exactly what we thought we were?

For one split moment, he had the bizarre thought that she somehow knew everything about him, every last detail from the moment of his birth to his certainty of his own death. It seemed, in that second, with her face tipped up toward his and her lips slightly parted, that she, more than anyone else who would ever walk this earth, truly knew him. It was thrilling. But more than that, it was terrifying.

And then she walked away, leaving Penelope wondering if maybe she wasn't quite what she'd thought she was. Maybe—just maybe—she was something a little bit more.

And then Andrew saw his downfall unfold on her face.

he felt an odd tingling, as if he'd suddenly come alive after years of sleepwalking. Then he'd turned and seen her, and he'd known she was the reason he was there that night; the reason he lived in England, the very reason he'd been born.

Shall you tell him or shall I?" Billie said. George took a breath. "Well, now that is quite a story . . .

No es fantástico descubrir que no somos exactamente lo que creíamos ser?

And he, who had slept with countless women, suddenly realized that he'd been nothing but a green boy. Because it had never been like this. That had been his body. This was his soul.

Em toda vida ocorre um momento decisivo. Um instante tão extraordinário, tão claro e tão nítido que temos a sensação de havermos sido golpeados no peito, deixados sem fôlego, sabendo, sabendo, sem a menor sombra de dúvida, que nossa vida jamais será a mesma

The man she knew, the man she'd loved for so very long—she didn't know who he was anymore.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.

Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.

The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story.

We got a lot of information from the detainees that eventually led us to bin Laden.

People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen.

Innocence has died in Bollywood.

I'm not a believer in 'what you don't know won't hurt you,' unless it's innocent.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

What's so great about inspiration is sometimes it finds you when you're not looking.

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

Groceries became a revelation: the people coming out with bundles of food. It's all like a great ceremony, and the whole drudgery of shopping has become my inspiration.

I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.