Afterim Quotes & Sayings

But say a man does know. He sees the world as it is and he looks back thousands of years to see how it all came about. He watches the slow agglutination of capital and power and he sees its pinnacle today. He sees America as a crazy house. He sees how men have to rob their brothers in order to live. He sees children starving and women working sixty hours a week to get to eat. He sees a whole damn army of unemployed and billions of dollars and thousands of miles of land wasted. He sees war coming. He sees when people suffer just so much they get mean and ugly and something dies in them. But the main thing he sees is that the whole system of the world is built on a lie. And although it's as plain as the shining sun - the don't-knows have lived with that lie so long they just can't see it. — Carson McCullers

A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else. — Bear Bryant

On a park bench on 12th street, my whole crew's famous, you try bust your gat and keep it rel but you nameless — Prodigy

When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful. — Lissa Rankin

Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything. — Jeff Tweedy

Just because there are things I don't remember, doesn't mean my actions are meaningless. The whole world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it? — Guy Pearce

As we get older and wiser, that we all learn to trust each other enough so that we can truly be ourselves, and accept each other for who we really are. — R.J. Palacio

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction. — David Chase

Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race. — Denis Diderot

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House. — Ben Nicholson

It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement. — Chris Martin

The cool wind blew around us. The ocean made a complaining sound, the ocean that complains and doesn't know why. The ocean washed woefully up onto the shore. My thoughts are an ocean, they wash woefully up against their limits.
A new age would dawn, we could still do great things. I did my best to believe it, my very, very best. — Nescio

The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette. — Giambattista Valli

Those who crept about at night risked stepping on a snake if they were not careful, as snakes move out of our way only if they feel vibrations in the ground. A light person - a person of non-traditional build, for example - was at far greater risk of being bitten by a snake for that very reason. That was another argument, of course, for maintaining traditional build - consideration for snakes, and safety too. — Alexander McCall Smith

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman. — Luigi Pirandello