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“The compelling thing about making art — or making anything, I suppose — is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art.”

Men World Looks Art Ideas War Moments Feelings Secret Known Tree Creatures Army Mere Substance Transformed New Things Compelling Fabulous Magician Artemis Laurels Athena Swine Sorceress

Author:Audrey Niffenegger

“I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.”

Source: Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.

“How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?”

Men Moments Interesting Successful Mere Compare Conqueror Successful Man Raleigh

Book:Success

Source: Success

“There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.”

Moments Passion Speak Fire Mere Fuel

Book:Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

“A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.”

Men Moments Facts Eye Voice Crime He Man Judging Mere Betrayal Criminals Flash Attempting Hesitation

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.”

Humans Art Real Philosophy Moments Fall History Dangerous Development Mere Distinction Cosmic Medal Human History Distinguished Ribbons Popcorn

Author:Saul Bellow

“The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.”

Looks May Two Moments Hands Eye Opportunity Speak Pressure Mere Lips Doom Trifles Moments Of Life Great Moments

Book:Pendennis

Source: Pendennis

“Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.”

World Mean Whole Moments Eye Reading Voice Imagination Ability Space Company Keys Ears Mere Saint Whole World All Time Fancy Finest Sage Time And Space Sweetest Wisest Wittiest

Book:Democracy and other Addresses

Source: Democracy and other Addresses

“Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.”

Self Moments Tears Laughter Mere Graves Passing Passings Enthusiasm Fantastic Excitement Controlled Inward Hysterical

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in clouds and rainbows, and as people too. Are they walking on this earth as people in disguise? Or do they appear for that one moment and vanish into ether again? Or is it really us, mere humans, who for a moment are picked up by the hand of God and made to speak unwittingly the words another needs to hear, or to hold out a life line to another soul?”

Source: A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives