Baccano Elmer Quotes & Sayings

I didn't know. I was fully aware of what would be destroyed. I did not know what would be built out of the ruins. No one can know that with any degree of certainty, I thought. The world is tangible, solid, we live in it and are struggling with it every moment it exist. The world of the future is not yet born — Nikos Kazantzakis

What you are seeking is yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Technically, I was trying to kill Puck. You just happened to be there. But yes, if I'd had the shot, I would have taken it.
-Prince Ash — Julie Kagawa

We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It's worth taking time to demistify it. [...] All the things an adolescent can be [...] are reduced to a three digit number. [...] We too can decide how to value our education instead of letting them value us. — Gloria Steinem

Becoming like Christ means aiming to serve, not be served. — Jim George

I am not well-versed in theory, but in my view, the cow deserves her life. As does the ram. As does the ladybug. As does the elephant. As do the fish, and the dog and the bee; as do other sentient beings. I will always be in favor of veganism as a minimum because I believe that sentient beings have a right not to be used as someone else's property. They ask us to be brave for them, to be clear for them, and I see no other acceptable choice but to advocate veganism. If these statements make me a fundamentalist, then I will sew a scarlet F on my jacket so that all may know I'm fundamentally in favor of nonviolence; may they bury me in it so that all will know where I stood. — Vincent J. Guihan

Come windless invader
I am a carnival of
Stars, a poem of blood. — Sonia Sanchez

The whole quality of your life depends on your state of mind. There are very high states of mind that very few people experience. They are also quite pragmatic and practical and they make you more efficient at living and working in the world. — Frederick Lenz

Hearth's eyes rimmed with green water. He signed to us, and this time I think he actually meant I love you and not the giantesses are drunk. — Rick Riordan

Shall I kill him?" said the princess after a pause. "My father insisted that I be trained in the art of silent assassination just in case. — Jasper Fforde

Golf is not a good walk spoiled. It is becoming a good walk prohibited. Show me the common sense in this and I promise I will relent. But there is no common sense at all in the prohibition of walking. — Lorne Rubenstein

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. — Oliver Herford

Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death. — Gary Snyder