A Quote by Dean Cavanagh

The yawn of the void. A siren call for the unimaginative

Dean Cavanagh

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Call Siren Void Yawn

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Dean Cavanagh
Novelist
Born: 1966

All things are void. So how possibly could there be any obscurations since everything is void, when you're void itself? There's only the void. In the void, there's only shining, perfect clear light of reality.

Frederick Lenz

The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.

Chanakya

If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.

Malcolm Gladwell

The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being

Frederick Franck

I try to avoid Twitter. I occasionally can't resist the siren call of email.

Diablo Cody

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

Margaret Halsey

That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

Stewart Copeland

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

Henry Taylor

Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void while granting that it could be conceived. In fact, we can quite easily conceive things that do not exist. Can a chimera, buzzing in the Void, devour second intentions? No, because chimeras do not exist, in the Void no buzzing can be heard, and intentions are mental things - an intended pear does not nourish us. And yet I can think of a chimera even if it is chimerical, namely, if it is not. And the same with the Void.

Umberto Eco

Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)