Alecsander Vortkin Quotes & Sayings

Look at your body - A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. - The Dhammapada — Thomas Ligotti

Romantic art begins with its climax. — Oscar Wilde

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun ... — Anna Letitia Barbauld

That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel ... — William Shakespeare

A gladiator only gets to use a real sword when he fights in the arena, since no Roman worth his salt trusts a gladiator with a real sword in the ludus. You have that ungrateful wretch Spartacus to thank for that. — Simon Scarrow

I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy. — John Irving

If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it. — Dean Cavanagh

The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory. — Evita Peron

Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet. — Steven Morrissey

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same. — Jonathan Davis

They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones. — J.M. Barrie

I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate ... and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself. — Napoleon Bonaparte

You don't think about all these colours when everything's going all right; you'd go mad if you did. You just think about the colour on the top. But those colours are there, all the same. All the quarrels, and the bits of unkindness. And every so often something happens to put a chip right through; and then you can't not think of them.' She looked up, and grew self-conscious; — Sarah Waters

The farther you progress toward a vision of our species without limiting conditions on your consciousness, the farther you drift away from what makes you a person among persons in the human community. — Thomas Ligotti