Brandigirlz133 Quotes & Sayings

We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational. — Richard Dawkins

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future. — Lion Feuchtwanger

Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing. — Giorgio Vasari

I am scared of the photo studio. I am scared of the telephone. Scared of anything outside our apartment. Scared of the people in their big fur hats. Scared of the snow. Scared of the cold. Scared of the heat. Scared of the ceiling fan at which I would point one tragic finger and start weeping. Scared of any height higher than my sickbed. Scared of Uncle Electric Current. "Why was I so scared of everything?" I ask my mother nearly forty years later.
"Because you were born a Jewish person," she says. — Gary Shteyngart

A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust. — George R R Martin

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons. — Dorothy Denning

It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon