Catalyn Reviews Quotes & Sayings

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. — Karl Marx

This tale grew in the telling, until it became a history of the Great War of the Ring and included many glimpses of the yet more ancient history that preceded it. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations
all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism. — Vladimir Lenin

She's a few dances short of a full card. — Mary Matthews

But once you cross the Shannon - even though geographically you have only come a short distance - different rules of time apply, and most people still understand the crucial secret of human happiness: that it's better to do a few things slowly, than a lot of things fast. — Pete McCarthy

He forgot everything: the sorcerer upstairs, the mission, his own imperfection, and the shame and bitterness that came with it. — Cinda Williams Chima

I'm not a betting man. — Kelly Jones

Besides, I can't, I no longer have the strength to destroy this painful piece of myself, which might turn out to be the piece I value most. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it. — Daniel Handler

He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid. — Terry Pratchett

The statement "Hitler loved dogs and little children" is shocking no matter how many times you hear it, because any trace of kindness in someone so evil violates the expectations set up by the halo effect. — Daniel Kahneman

Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain ... threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, that was part of an exhibition supposedly emphasizing 'the finite existence of art' ... The cleaner evidently had no time to question the relationship of his or her being to the rubbish bag, and reached the right conclusion. — Semir Zeki