Contaminare Quotes & Sayings

Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another. — Lee Konitz

To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am. — M.C. Escher

I'm much pickier about what I put in my body. I always read labels now, whereas before I didn't even think to. — Nicky Hilton

But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to remove their shells so that they can wire electrodes to the turtles' skin in order to monitor their increasing terror at the loss of their shells. — Mary Gaitskill

Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength. — Rosa Luxemburg

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings. — John Buchanan Robinson

Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,
Gathers and melts. — Thiruvalluvar

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. — Tim O'Reilly

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Meditation is the nourishment for flowering. — Jaggi Vasudev

It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs. — Scott Stossel