Quotes About Revelation

she tried to avoid his gaze but he held her steady and would not look away, Finally her eyes spoke to him. Her eyes said, Words are too weak, too small, they are always too small, even the purest and most simple phrases fail. Her eyes said, Look at who you are, you were asleep when I met you, but now you're awake, so stay awake. I did not need you and I did not want you and yet here you are, awake in my body and in my heart.

You take a shower, your head is up, far away from everything, lost in the clouds, but down in the tub, man, you know who you are.

There in that embrace, she feels something shuffling around, moving warily fumbling through the dusty rooms of her heart, and, one by one, turning on the lights

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.

It was like someone had turned a knob a hair to the right ... and the radio station clicked in so loud and clear it almost knocked her over .

Universals bring us together not by imposing a common structure on us but by revealing that we share what we don't have and can never have. The fact that no one can have a universal—no one possesses freedom or equality—is the source of their emancipatory quality. Universals are not possessions to have or lose or give away. We don't have to be suspicious of the universals because no one can ever impose them on us, even if someone wanted to.

His answer caught me by surprise. I'd never realized there was an age limit for spankings. This was the best news I'd heard in a long time.

David foster Wallace: '...the revelatory power of freakishly thorough noticing, of corralling and controlling detail.[...] he trains you to study the world through the lens of his prose.' NYTimes, 7 Feb 2016

Somehow in all of this we are still capable of finding some illumination, some truth, some place where we step out of ourselves, where we are ecstatic, where we have an ecstatic, visionary realization.

As she would later admit, she 'occasionally set up a paparazzi photo or let info slip out to the press'.135

And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

Karen is like RuPaul - she's a character. It never occurred to me until now, but she is!

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

We knew that Father was loved in Orissa. But the ocean of emotion that greeted us on his death was an eye-opener.

Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.

I learn new things about what 'The Room' does wrong or oddly every time I see it with a crowd.

Believe me, when I do a story - if you read 'Batman: Odyssey,' I never do something without there being a reason. There's always a reason, and you will find out in the story. I'm looking to entertain you.

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series of things that I had for the first time and thought, 'Where has this been all my life?' One was brie. I mean, oh my God! One was my first soft-shell crabs.

To me, my favorite joke on a stand-up special is when someone says something and you go, 'Oh my God, I've been thinking that my whole life, I've just never said it to anyone else.' Those little kinda quiet, personal observations you make that nobody else has talked about yet.

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'