Achtentwintig Quotes & Sayings

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction. — David Nicholls

Testosterone overload?" Merinus gave an unladylike grunt. "More like asshole overload if you ask me. — Lora Leigh

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive. — George Orwell

So long there are women around, a cheater will cheat against his promise. — Anthony Liccione

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time. — John Ruskin

Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside. — Yotam Ottolenghi

What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be my hobby, you know, happens to be my actual job. So I'm very lucky. Even if I didn't want to do as much work as I do, I'd still feel compelled to, because I so longed to be a full-time artist, and since I've been given that opportunity, I'd never want to let down the gift. — Ryan Adams

Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it. — Maria Montessori

There are people that grandstand and seem to be publicly politically engaged because they like the attention, more than because they're genuinely concerned about the world. But I don't think that's the majority. — Viggo Mortensen

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life. — Catherine Opie

Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable. — Catharine A. MacKinnon

I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me. — Gregory Harrison

Don't put all your eggs in one basket — Nikki Ziehl

For ages men had used sticks to club and spear each other - Anaximander of Miletus used the stick to measure time. — Carl Sagan