Bolesna Tajemnica Quotes & Sayings

My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country. — Raquel Welch

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god. — Mark Twain

Things have to be done fast in America , and therefore therapy has to be brief. — Gregory Bateson

Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has. — Judith Stone

I cannot locate any aestetic dignity in [Stephen] King's writing: his public could not sustain it, nor could he ... Art unfortunately is rarely the fruit of earnestness, and King will be remembered as a sociological phenomenon, an image of the death of the Literate Reader. — Harold Bloom

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now. — Kendrick Lamar

He bent his head towards his shoulder and tried to look pitiful and humble, but for all that he was radiant with freshness and health. — Leo Tolstoy

We are 'writers,' we are not supposed to be interested in filthy lucre, we are supposed to be starry eyed artistes ... In Reality Land, we all want to maybe put dinner on the table once in a while, but in Fantasy Land, we are not supposed to be even interested in money because we are so caught up in the emotion of it all. That's an illusion, but people like it and it makes us feel holy or something so we all play along. — Max D. Adams

New research suggests that we may hold an unconscious bias against creative ideas much like we do in cases of racism or phobias. — Anonymous

To our friends,' he answered, 'we die every day, but to ourselves we die only at the end. — Djuna Barnes

We have been telling each other tales of otherness, of life beyond the grave, for a long time; stories that prickle the flesh and make the shadows deeper and, most important, remind us that we live, and that there is something special, something unique and remarkable about the state of being alive. — Neil Gaiman

In answer to 'But violence hasn't solved anything!'
The hell it hasn't. The application of violence - of killing and a willingness to be killed - on a massive scale is responsible for a lot of solutions. The most recent mass application of violence liberated Kuwait. The most recent mass application of violence on a global scale alone cleansed the world of the Third Reich. Nonviolence and passive resistance did less than nothing to stop Hitler and his henchmen. The Atlantic slave trade wasn't stopped by 'dialogue' or 'passive resistance' or conferences, but by the opened gunports of the Royal Navy; Dachau and Chang-I weren't liberated with pamphlets. — Markham Shaw Pyle

The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story. — John Logan