Console Vault Quotes & Sayings

Breitenau." The first policeman — Anthony Doerr

Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural. — U.G. Krishnamurti

Change is fearsome, but stagnation is lethal. — Debasish Mridha

What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually. — Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

When I look at the multitude of the gods of the past held in esteem by great civilisations now cast aside as pagan idols, I wonder wether tomorrow the gods we hold in high esteem won't suffer the same fate. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life. — Steve McCurry

James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he was thinking in Gaelic. I've sung songs that if they were in English, would have been banned too. The psyche of the Irish language is completely different to the English-speaking world. — Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia. — Patti Smith

I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, trying to talk to people who didn't agree with me, trying to get them to see the war was wrong. And by 1968 a majority of Americans did oppose the war. — Bill Ayers

A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate. — Robert A. Heinlein

My idea of heaven is not writing. — Stephen Sondheim

We've been told that with regard to seduction, "candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker," but in truth, rather, properly selected: "candy makes randy; liquor makes desire flicker"; or, as Shakespeare's porter said to Macduff: "[drink] provokes the desire but it takes away the performance." The wines and beers of antiquity, however, which were potent infusions of innumerable psychoactive plants, often requiring dilution with water and in which alcohol served rather as preservative then inebriating active principle. — Rick Doblin

Memory can move very swiftly. Words do not possess the same swiftness. — C.S. Lakshmi