Artinian Quotes & Sayings

Much of the attraction of the cult has to do with the grace of an early and romantic death. George Orwell once observed that if Napoleon Bonaparte had been cut down by a musket ball as he entered Moscow, he would have been remembered as the greatest general since Alexander. And not only did Guevara die before his ideals did, he died in such a manner as to inspire something akin to superstition. He rode among the poor of the altiplano on a donkey. He repeatedly foresaw and predicted the circumstances of his own death. He was spurned and betrayed by those he claimed to set free. He was by calling a healer of the sick. The photographs of his corpse, bearded and half-naked and lacerated, make an irresistible comparison with paintings of the deposition from Calvary. There is a mystery about his last resting place. Alleged relics are in circulation. There have even been sightings ... . — Christopher Hitchens

I hate doing interviews. I get really bored talking about me. — Tim Rice

When fear is the disease, faith and confidences are the medicine. — Debasish Mridha

Whenever there is a a financial crisis, it is always the banks that get hit. — Gordon Wu

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country. — Al Jourgensen

You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool. — Mia Wasikowska

I've got to the stage in life where all my friends are rich or dead — Rod Humble

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. — Bono

We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted ... So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life. — Theodore Roosevelt

Some people take what they need from the orchard, and other people pick the orchard clean."
From - "The Mind Game Company - The Players — Andrew Neff

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to. — Saul Leiter

Her hands were freezing, just like they always were, so I warmed them, just like I always did. — Gayle Forman