Alleyns Open Quotes & Sayings

The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which prevents it from growing and his mind from developing just as surely as the iron shoe does the foot of the Chinese girl. — Hudson Maxim

What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there. — Eduardo Galeano

With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the doctrine of Anabaptism, which for a time dominated the city of Munster. The Anabaptists repudiated all law since they held that good men will be guided at every moment by the Holy Spirit, who can not be bound by formulas. From this premise they arrive at communism and sexual promiscuity; they were therefore exterminated after a heroic resistance. — Bertrand Russell

My whole life, I wanted to be dead, but I didn't actually do anything about it. I guess I didn't want to be dead; I wanted relief. I wanted to be happy and peaceful." "That's it," she said. "It's not about dying; it's about stopping the pain." (289) — Monica Holloway

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned. — Plato

Cooks were the mitochondria of humanity; they had their own separate DNA, they floated in a cell and powered it but were not really of it. — Jonathan Franzen

Sleep came slower than a frigid woman. — Kinky Friedman

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. — Duke Snider

Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want ... create your own constellation — Pharrell Williams