Darijan Suvalija Quotes & Sayings

People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so - therefore - are their beliefs. — Brandon Sanderson

If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, ... let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second. — Noam Chomsky

You're at the age where the rush of the job has passed and the grind of the job is taken in stride, and this is the time when you're wondering if it wouldn't be so bad if you just stopped giving much of a shit and rolled along doing as little as possible. — Warren Ellis

The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed. — Robert Greene

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens. — Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time. — Ginger Rogers

Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people's lives too. Saving them from their "wild African ways." Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving. One-Fifteen — Angie Thomas

I want this to be us. For always, I want this." "Me too. Me too." "For always, High?" he whispered. "For always, Lo. — Brittainy C. Cherry

A soap opera character on the bar TV says, "You killed him, you smothered him with doughnuts!" Another character, another scene--she is sitting in a room with a man and an elderly woman--the leas character wonders if she's dead. The man says, No, you're alive," and the other woman hands her a plate of doughnuts.
A commercial comes on. A couple are on a date and the woman's voice-over articulates interior thoughts of what a wonderful guy her friend has set her up with: "He's so cute, and his IQ is higher than my bank balance . . . but she didn't tell me he has . . . Tourette's syndrome. — David Byrne

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself. — Russell Crowe

I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Ivy waved the wet handkerchief, as much as to say, words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. — Gail Carriger

If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland. — Kristin Scott Thomas

Almost sixteen weeks after I'd woken up on the bedroom floor, the lightbulb box arrived. — Steven Hall