Across Quotes

They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.

I wish I could say I’m an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I’ve been lucky that things have come across my path and they’ve worked out well for me.

I love it when I come across a word I don’t know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren’t smart enough to come along with me.

One of the most powerful sayings I have come across is by Imam ash-Shafi’I, “My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.”

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

You taste something from St. George, even across categories – the gin, the whisky – it tastes like something from St. George. It’s the same as going to a great bar:

I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Vancouver is dope, everybody got across the border today.

Reading across three languages is a way for me to diversify my intake as a reader, not to tunnel into certain categories or demographics.