Cords Quotes

“These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end while they run taut into the darkness.”

“The darkness of sin is a cords of deceit.”

“I am a sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the world's rock altar, waiting for worms. I take a deep breath, I open my eyes. Looking, I see there are worms in the horns of the altar like live maggots in amber, there are shells of worms in the rock and moths flapping at my eyes. A wind from no place rises. A sense of the real exults me; the cords loosen: I walk on my way.”

“a small nation resembles a big family and likes to describe itself that way. In the language of the smallest European people, in Icelandic, the term for "family" is fjölskylda; the etymology is eloquent: skylda means "obligation"; fjöl means "multiple." Family is thus "a multiple obligation." Icelanders have a single word for "family ties": fjölskyldubönd: "the cords (bönd) of multiple obligations." Thus in the big family that is a small country, the artist is bound in multiple ways, by multiple cords. When Nietzsche noisily savaged the German character, when Stendhal announced that he preferred Italy to his homeland, no German or Frenchman took offense; if a Greek or a Czech dared to say the same thing, his family would curse him as a detestable traitor.”

“You do have a tendency to severe spinal cords.""Only for you.”

“Why do you have bungee cords back here?" she asked."I'm dating again.”

“Is that the biggest favor your vocal cords have done to anyone this week?”

“Genius is expansive irresistible and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you no cords can confine it.”

“my mind struggled top condense all that had led to me being here. My vocal cords fought to express the memories that leaked out”