Bolonjezer Quotes & Sayings

God is a sadist on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, and His name is Physics. — Peter Watts

My mother raised me to be polite, to be demure. I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn't gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky. — Brene Brown

Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting - dealing with the next problem without having the bandwidth to deal with what is down the pipeline. I think most of the poor have that problem. — Sendhil Mullainathan

If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.'
'Yes, he ... was.'
'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife. — Diana Gabaldon

I ask you, what is the proper etiquette? Do you tell someone their breast is rolling around on their stomach like a cantaloupe in a plastic grocery bag, or do you wait until they notice? — Skip Clark

Art is art, and journalism is journalism. — Lance Reddick

I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance. — Joan Allen

The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And one more demand: I expect the novelist to aspire to improve the world ... As a novelist, I want to be more than one more dog barking at the other dogs barking at me. Not out of any foolish hope that one novelist, or all virtuous novelists in chorus, can make much of a difference for good, except in the long run, but out of the need to prevent the human world from relaxing into something worse. To maintain the tension between truth and falsity, beauty and ugliness, good and evil ... I believe the highest duty of the serious novelist is, whatever the means or technique, to be a critic of his society, to hold society to its own ideals, or if these ideals are unworthy, to suggest better ideals. — Edward Abbey

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend. — Mason Cooley

'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that. — Laura Osnes

[He] was what people called a man's man. He fixed things and he had a deep laugh. He looked like he could carry you out of a burning building and he looked like the kind of man who would go back in to get your poodle. And even though he made fun of his own looks [...], I liked his face. — Amy Bloom