Alloys International Quotes & Sayings

Democracy can only be measured on the existence of an opposition — Poul Henningsen

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags. — Henry Miller

I was insanely jealous."
"I know. It should make me happy, but it doesn't."
"Why ?"
"I'd rather make you happy, Caleb. I'd rather see you smile. — C.J. Roberts

I hope I never get so old I get religious. — Ingmar Bergman

Had Prozac been available last century, Baudelaire's "spleen," Edgar Allan Poe's moods, the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the lamentations of so many other poets, everything with a soul would have been silenced*....
If large pharmaceutical companies were able to eliminate the seasons, they would probably do so--for profit, of course.

*This does not mean that Sylvia Plath should not have been medicated at all. The point is that pathologies should be medicated when there is risk of suicide, not mood swings. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Death is a kind of guilt in itself. We're all alive in this world together, and we're also all mortal, but when one person pulls his thread through to the other side, it can start a chain reaction you never in your wildest dreams saw coming. Maybe you'll be left with nothing more than an unholy knot to unpick. Maybe a new design. Sometimes a whole new perspective on yourself. — Tiffany Baker

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area. — Gordon Brown

Dumbbells are pretty easy to come by, but since many of them are married, I suggest lifting weights. Youth — Rue McClanahan

The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,
the soldiery and the priesthood. — Henry David Thoreau