Cunho Rustico Quotes & Sayings

Semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense — Alfred Tarski

Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of thing? Maybe. But from around about the turn of the century, I felt strongly that we had to do something about media ownership and self-regulation. Tony [Blair] disagreed. — Alastair Campbell

Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back. That — George R R Martin

I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction. — Ted Chiang

That goddamn Louis, you see what he done? Put his cigarette butt in here. I'm gonna punch him right in his smokin' mouth." Max turned back to the form, glades mutual casualty printed across the top. He said, "I know how you feel. But when you hit an ex-con who's done three falls, they say you better kill him. — Elmore Leonard

Or are you exclusively "artful" because it's easier to excuse your sloppiness as purposeful? — Benjamin Percy

Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine! — Lawrence Durrell

Yes, it's your fault I'm alive. — Suzanne Collins

I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas. — Paul Taylor

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president. — Billy Graham

If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it. — Gautama Buddha

I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything ... Sophisticated - God, I'm sophisticated! (Daisy) — F Scott Fitzgerald

Whatever avenue I feel like I can make a difference in, I'd love to do. — Tim Tebow

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks. — Andy Warhol