Cauchemardesque Quotes & Sayings

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. — Marge Piercy

You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu. — Karen Russell

Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand. — Jose Marti

No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine. — Hermann Hesse

I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased. — Enrique Pena Nieto

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store. — William Gibson

I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of [c] the stronger. — Plato

All the things that you said when you thought I wasn't there,
I just tell them to my corner, 'cause no one else would care.
That way, when I'm with you, I can keep a cheerful face,
But for the moment, I really just need some space. — Margo T. Rose

Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby. — Barbara Kruger

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul. — Matthew Arnold

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again ... it's funner that way. — Rufus Wainwright

When Rip Torn dies - heaven forbid - but when he dies, you'll only have to write RIP Torn. — Gregor Collins