Chestovich Quotes & Sayings

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. — Henry Ward Beecher

I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on. — Nas

Indeed the Here and Now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but eve of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left but a series of present moments. — Albert Camus

Nobody gets to be Queen of England by being loveable. You will have to play your cards right. — Philippa Gregory

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. — William Shakespeare

I have this theory, that this will be the only city that future archaeologists find, Las Vegas. The dry climate will preserve it all and teams of scientists in the year 5000 will carefully sweep and scrape away the sand to find pyramids and castles and replicas of the Eiffel Tower and the New York skyline and stripper poles and snapper cards and these future archaeologists will re-create our entire culture based solely on this one shallow and cynical little shithole. We can complain all we want that this city doesn't represent us. We can say, Yes, but I hated Las Vegas. Or I only went there once. Well, I'm sure not all Romans reveled in the torture-fests at the Colosseum either, but there it is. — Jess Walter

I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet. — Phil Collins

Undoubtedly, modern Science is rational and the scientific method is based on rationality. But rationality is a wider concept, and it can explore what is beyond the scope of Science and its method. — Corrado Ghinamo

Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality. He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry. — Nelson Mandela

I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness. — Joseph Hall

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible. — Lawrence Hargrave

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. — James Nathan Miller

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons. — Mario Vargas-Llosa