Cockled Snails Quotes & Sayings

In theory, the Internet provides an opportunity to widen knowledge-to see beyond screens and neighborhoods into a broader universe-and yet the first thing many people want to do is wall themselves off and broadcast how narrow-minded they are. It seems to absolutely miss the point of the experience. — Jason Gay

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. — Soren Kierkegaard

I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in. — Diane Von Furstenberg

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality. — Ken Adam

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet. — Anne Fadiman

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. — Gloria Steinem

The rate of innovation is a function of the total number of people connected and exchanging ideas. It has gone up as population has gone up. It's gone up as people have concentrated in cities. — Peter Diamandis

Legal gun ownership always prevails over the emotionalism of the gun control movement. — Greg Gutfeld

Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. Finis. Total liquidation. This is the vanishing-point. Death is death, believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there is nothing but equal nothingness. — Victor Hugo

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting. — Richard Ayoade

I want this beast to savage me, to hurt me while taking me to the apex of pleasure. — Nina G. Jones