Codesalon Quotes & Sayings

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it. — Randall Jarrell

It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday. — Veerappa Moily

One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning. — Barbara Pym

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit — Ezra Pound

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power. — Katherine Dunn

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie. — Ice-T

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'm named Bella," the girl told Gendry. "For the battle. I bet I could ring your bell, too. You want to?"
"No," he said gruffly.
"I bet you do." She ran a hand along his arm. "I don't cost nothing to friends of Thoros and the lighting lord."
"No, I said." Gendry rose abruptly and stalked away from the table out into the night.
Bella turn to Arya. "Don't he like girls?"
Arya shrugged. "He's just stupid. He likes to polish helmets and beat on swords with hammers. — George R R Martin

The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him. — Paulo Coelho

Awake. Reach out. Press onward. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Today, I will know that I don't have to worry about anything. If I do worry, I will do it with the understanding that I am choosing to worry, and it is not necessary. — Melody Beattie

How many days have I spent alone with my cat ... and when I say alone, I mean without a material being, for my cat is a mystical companion, a spirit. — Pierre Bonnard

When I was with her, my skin sighed that the center of the world was precisely here. — Joanne Horniman

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement. — Soren Kierkegaard