Athenaeus Media Quotes & Sayings

The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause. — Zadie Smith

Never work with kids or animals. — Cat Deeley

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases. — Andre Malraux

We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by. — Sebastian Horsley

Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments. — Gouverneur Morris

My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space are at the whim of reality, their discovery and organization is the assignment of the realist painter. — Ralph Goings

Suddenly, this word fills me with a sense of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds are all dried up and the plants are wilted. It's no longer really summer but the air is still too warm and heavy to be fall. It's the season between seasons. It's the feeling of something dying. — Augusten Burroughs

Can I help you up?"
"No," she said bitterly. "I prefer to drag myself along the hardwood floor."
"Bitch," I said, squatting to help her up. — Charlaine Harris

What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us. — Janet Malcolm