Asfixiar Quotes & Sayings

An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. — Abigail Padgett

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right. — Frank Lampard

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person. — Diane Abbott

It seemed to me that we ought occasionally to be reminded of instability beneath our feet. — Julian Barnes

No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can't see. — Hal Clement

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined. — Rebecca Solnit

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement. — Mike Piazza

In the outworks of our lives, we were almost strangers, but we shared a certain outlook on human life and human destiny, which, from the very first, made a bond of extreme strength . . . . At our very first meeting, we talked with continually increasing intimacy. We seemed to sink through layer after layer of what was superficial, till gradually both reached the central fire. It was an experience unlike any other that I have known. We looked into each other's eyes, half appalled and half intoxicated to find ourselves together in such a region. The emotion was as intense as passionate love, and at the same time all-embracing. I came away bewildered, and hardly able to find my way among ordinary affairs. — Bertrand Russell

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself. — Andrew Brown

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present. — Don Hertzfeldt