Callesen T Quotes & Sayings

Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often than I used to. On the other hand, I'm making no promises for the future. The material itself always gets the last word. — Roy Kesey

We will have nothing substantial to offer anyone else so long as we have not first mastered the art of being patient midwives to our own thoughts. — Alain De Botton

Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."

-General John James
Commandant, USMC
December 11th, 2032 — L. Douglas Hogan

[Touching his own breast.] In here, you see - in here I have a little bramah-locked casket. And in that casket all my sculptor's visions are stored up. But when she disappeared and left no trace, the lock of the casket snapped to. And she had the key - and she took it away with her. - You, little Maia, you had no key; so all that the casket contains must lie unused. And the years pass! And I have no means of getting at the treasure. — Henrik Ibsen

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts - it is unusual to offer both. In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts - it is unusual to offer both. — Lewis Carroll

When my beloved arrives, I yawn. When my beloved departs, I weep. — Mason Cooley

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. — Bob Edwards

All over the world are particular people, and you could be happy with probably five or six of them, eight if you're bisexual and everyone is. — Daniel Handler

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad. — Oliver Hudson

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I feel like a nude little piece of white meat out here. — Cody Lundin

In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of knowledge. With what pathetic trust does he recite his facts! He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things. — Richard M. Weaver