Cretaceous And Maelstrom Quotes & Sayings

I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe. — Heinz Fischer

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman. — Jane Harrison

Their curses were not aimed at any definite target: they swore at such abstractions as God, the Officers, the Mothers of Others, with more music than meaning. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. — Walter Lippmann

Everything right now tends to be the same and very aggressive, and I think people are getting a little burned out on it. — DJ Shadow

I tan the easy way. I just wait for my liver spots to connect. — Martha Bolton

[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window. — Michael Anti

Violists hate it when we violinists crack viola jokes. — Paula Yoo

Innocence so constantly finds itself in a false position that inwardly innocent people learn to be disingenuous. Finding no language to speak in their own terms they resign themselves to being translated imperfectly. They exist alone; when they try and enter into relations they compromise falsifyingly- through anxiety, through desire to impart and to feel warmth. The system of our affections is too corrupt for them. They are bound to blunder, then to be told they cheat...Their singleness, their ruthlessness, their one continuous wish makes them bound to be cruel, and to suffer cruelty. — Elizabeth Bowen

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer. — Julia Leigh