N.B. Williams Quotes

The Captain, so close as he was, didn’t warrant their attention. Even a fly on a horse’s hindquarters gets a tail whip. And that is the thick of it. We are less than flies to these foul foes.

You're right. What Drew and I had was genuine. He loved me. That doesn't mean he didn't change his mind.

She wanted him to leave town with a smile on his face. She wanted to be memorable.

I'm going to find ways to make you blush, just so I can enjoy the journey.

I made the first move. Now it's up to him." "Telling him you should hit the sack and get it out of your system is not making the first move.

Well, she was through. If he wanted her, he'd have to do something about it.

I want you to stay here ...with me." "All night?" "All night." Drew cupped her face with his hands giving her a gentle kiss. "In my arms.

I prefer doing over watching.

There was no substitute for a post-coital cuddle.

We've been given a second chance. How many people can say that?

How devastating to find 'the one' and not be 'their one.

Something tells me that Alex has some demons and I can tell you from experience that those suckers don't go down easy.

Shamanism is not simply a component of society: on the contrary, shamanism, together with its tiered cosmos, can be said to be the overall framework of society.

Consciousness has evolved biologically and can therefore be explained biologically.

Primary consciousness is a state of being aware of things in the world – of having mental images in the present.But it is not accompanied by any sense of a person with a past and future…

Primary consciousness is a kind of ‘remembered present’…

I believe it is reasonable to assume that higher-order consciousness developed neurologically in Africa before the second wave of emigration to the Middle East and Europe.

Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of those recollections into a spirit world.

Once human beings had developed higher-order consciousness, they had the ability to see mental images projected onto surfaces and to experience afterimages.

For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.

In Lascaux and other sites, hoofs are depicted to show their underside, or hoofprint.

The portable animal statuettes were therefore far more than decorative trinkets: they were reified three-dimensional spirit animals with all their prophylactic and other powers.

Shamans submit to death in order to serve their communities.

The Upper Palaeolithic figures known as ‘wounded men’ occur at Cougnac and Pech Merle, two sites in the Quercy district of France.

The ‘wounded men’ may, I argue, represent a form of shamanistic suffering, ‘death’ and initiation that was closely associated with somatic hallucinati

In altered states of consciousness, the nervous system itself becomes a ‘sixth sense’ that produces a variety of images including entoptic phenomena.

There were at least four contexts in which San shamans acquired insights into the spiritual world: – the trance dance, – special curing rituals, – viewing rock art, and – dreams.

The principal aim of a vision quest is to ‘see’ a spirit animal that will become the quester’s animal-helper and source of his power.

A shaman’s activities as a sorcerer, or his own conscious act of entry into the supernatural world, were a kind of “killing”.

To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby...

I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

May the gods ignore you.

I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal

Nothing in life is fair except a witnessed duel.

I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction.

Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel.

There is no possible idea, " Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.

But the seawhich no one tendsis also a garden

A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures.

I gulped and remained silent, a tear streamed down my face as I looked away, hoping she didn’t notice.

life is like a tree, when you feeling down the leaves fall off.

Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost

[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.

Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.

Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids.

It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.

A man is indeed a city, and for the poet there are no ideas but in things.

As long as you're still walking with the demons of hell! You'll never have the time to slow down to see the angels of heaven behind you.

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future.

When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.