Clusters Quotes

• We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Midwife

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.263, Penguin

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• Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.

  May Sarton

  Life, Solitude, Breathe

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.100, Open Road Media

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• The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

  Galileo Galilei

  Stars, Together, Way

  Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler (2016). “The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries”, p.30, Library of Alexandria

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• People in a cluster are bound to each other automatically, and can see each other automatically.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  People, Bounds

  Source: collider.com

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• You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.

  Jacques Roumain

  Easy, Grapes, Ifs

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• It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Stars, Light, Way

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• The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

  Henry James

  Judging, Unseen, Pieces

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12972, Delphi Classics

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• The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

  Ezra Pound

  Ideas, Energy, Vortex

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• If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Song, Opportunity, Thinking

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• What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

  Andrew Marvell

  Food, Apples, Cooking

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 5

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• Cluster together like stars!

  Henry Miller

  Stars, Together

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• Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

  George Mackay Brown

  Shadow, Gathering, Old Wisdom

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• The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Crystals, Problem

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.

  John Pilger

  Children, War, Support

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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• Straight up from this road
  Away from the fitted particles of frost
  Coating the hull of each chick pea,
  And the stiff archer bug making its way
  In the morning dark, toe hair by toe hair,
  Up the stem of the trillim,
  Straight up through the sky above this road right now,
  The galaxies of the Cygnus A cluster
  Are colliding with each other in a massive swarm
  Of interpenetrating and exploding catastrophes.
  I try to remember that.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Morning, Archer, Dark

  Pattiann Rogers (2014). “The Expectations of Light”, p.35, Princeton University Press

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• The god we now behold with opened eyes,
  A herd of spotted panthers round him lies
  In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread
  On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.

  Ovid

  Lying, Eye, Panthers

  Ovid, “Metamorphoses: Book The Third”

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• These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Light, Shining, Desire

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003). “Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.

  Democritus

  Moving, Science, Fire

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• If you take a galaxy and try to make it bigger, it becomes a cluster of galaxies, not a galaxy. If you try to make it smaller than that, it seems to blow itself apart.

  Jeremiah P. Ostriker

  Blow, Trying, Bigger

  "Fundamental laws - Astronomical reach". Interview with Catherine Zandonella, research.princeton.edu. January 31, 2014.

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• Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.

  Clive Barker

  Stars, Butterfly, Men

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

  Charlie Brooker

  Pain, People, Empathy

  Charlie Brooker (2012). “I Can Make You Hate”, p.163, Faber & Faber

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• You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.

  Eric Weiner

  Florence, Valleys, Looks

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

  Henry James

  Country, Knowing, Judging

  Henry James (2003). “The Portable Henry James”, p.435, Penguin

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• I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up clusters of economic activity where you have, among other things, continuous retraining of people well into their middle years so they never become irrelevant to the current job market.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Believe, Years

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his living room. That's /electrical/ engineering, Pop," his son told him loftily. "We're all mechanical engineers. Ask a mechanical engineer to fix your color TV, that's like asking an Ob-Gyn to look at the sore on your di-ow!" Oh, sorry," said his father, peering blandly over gold-rimmed glasses. "That your foot, Lenny?

  Diana Gabaldon

  Sorry, Father, Son

  Diana Gabaldon (2012). “The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone”, p.2395, Dell

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