Bonnie Pfiester Quotes & Sayings

I'm not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably. — Richey Edwards

All the world needs are examples of people capable of living out their dreams and fighting for their ideas. — Paulo Coelho

I don't much like opera, either. Especially Wagner. There's something about Wagner that's just too piss-German, too fucking Bavarian for a Prussian like me. I like my music to be every bit as vulgar as I am myself. I like a bit of innuendo and stocking-top when a woman's singing a song. — Philip Kerr

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes ... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do! — Phil McGraw

She was a fool. She wept like a helpless child that night at Chester's while the entire club watched. Not because you broke her finger or threatened her but because you were alive and she was that happy to see you. She was always happy to see you. She lit up inside. You lost her. You let her be lost. — Karen Marie Moning

One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of human nature, a sense of shared humanity above the cultural layers we place on ourselves [which don't] mean that much compared to the human experience. — Chris Hondros

They also bring to mind what sometimes seems to be a rapt predilection of small but influential cults of intellectuals or esthetes for what is generally regarded as perverse dispirited or distastefully unintelligible. The award of a Nobel Prize in literature to Andre Gide who in his work fervently and openly insists that pederasty is the superior and preferable way of life for adolescent boys furnishes a memorable example of such judgments. Renowned critics and some professors in our best universities reverently acclaim as the superlative expression of genius James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake a 628page collection of erudite gibberish indistinguishable to most people from the familiar word salad produced by hebephrenic patients on the back wards of any state hospital. — Hervey M. Cleckley

The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain. — William S. Burroughs

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects. — Lion Feuchtwanger

It would be lovely if we could gather up all the evil people and put them together on one island, leaving them to self-destruct in their collective sinfulness. — Matthew Kelly

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.' — Sheldon Richman

You might not be riding high on a great show for as long because you didn't have people to share the joy with. — Aoife O'Donovan

Yes, 'Spider-Man' has had an infinite capacity to trouble and disappoint. But it's also been the greatest triumph of my entire career. — Michael Cohl

That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. — Garrison Keillor