Delphian Quotes & Sayings

You're a philosopher." "No. Just drunk. — Richard Kadrey

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined. — Bob Geldof

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up! — Scott Bakula

I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny? — Socrates

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family. — Dennis Lehane

There is also the fact that, unlike China, India is a democracy. Thus, Mumbai's robust activism functions as a brake on the drive to impose from above the fantasy of a global city. — Gyan Prakash