Arzamas Podcast Quotes & Sayings

We do not allow dwarf tossing. If you toss a dwarf, the dwarf will be tossed right back at you, but faster. — Demetri Martin

Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way. — Roger Angell

I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation. — William Shakespeare

In life most things that frighten us are to do with our own heart and its flaws. You'll always be afraid of some things - never free from fear itself. But that's all right. Fear's like pain, it's there in your life to teach you about yourself. — Lisa Ballantyne

People don't realize I'm a very spiritual person. — Big Sean

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own. — Lillian Hellman

I see it all through the lens of my camera - the flurry of movement, the venue staff in black T-shirts, giving orders into their headsets. As I take it all in, my mind weighs the texture, the composition, the possibility of each changing scene, and I struggle to hold back, to keep my finger from pressing too soon. That's my biggest flaw as a photographer. I'm impatient - trigger-happy. I want the shot now, now, now, click, click, click, and if I could just wait a second more, the moment would really flourish. — Emery Lord

The conversation did not go very well and I began telling him about the people with their trays in the great cafeteria and suggesting that it would have done us more good to go there to be put in mind of our own mortality. — Barbara Pym