Buscaton Quotes & Sayings

... in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose. — Primo Levi

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. — Lafcadio Hearn

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine. — Gloria Steinem

AT TRIGON I LEARNT business is all about people, so to ensure I had the first look at executive talent and could hire the best, I created my own recruitment company. I needed a temporary CFO at Emerald and was told about a recruitment consultant called Carmen Bailey. Within 10 minutes of meeting me, Carmen had asked more questions about my business and what drove and motivated me than anyone I had ever met. Carmen is a perfect example of someone who puts the client first. She is never transactional and for her it wasn't about finding me a contractor but, rather, about wanting to form a long-term sustainable relationship with my business. — Diane Foreman

Every nowhere is somewhere[...] — David Mitchell

Small wonder he refused to marry. Why buy a cow when there were udders all around begging to be milked? — George R R Martin

The instruments were all half desired, half forgotten. It was as if they were left behind by a ghost right in the middle of playing. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him. — Jurgen Moltmann

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life. — Sylvester Stallone

Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear. — Hanya Yanagihara

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to. — Wayne Rooney

The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat. — Thomas Paine

If you caught your kid raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without clean air or sunlight, pulling their teeth and claws out with pliers to keep them from hurting each other ... you'd rush him to a psychiatrist. But you support that very behavior every time you buy meat, eggs, dairy or fur. — Dan Piraro

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. — Mary McCarthy

I'm more like an animalistic rock chick. — Taryn Manning