Delrios York Quotes & Sayings

I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files. — Rocky Anderson

Only a man of genius can bare a solitary life. — Heather McGowan

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Strip was still lit by a million neon lights, though the crowds on the sidewalk had greatly decreased by this hour. Still, Bosch was awed by the spectacle of light. In every imaginable color and configuration, it was a megawatt funnel of enticement to greed that burned twenty-four hours a day. Bosch felt the same attraction that all the other grinders felt tug at them. Las Vegas was like one of the hookers on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Even happily married men at least glanced their way, if only for a second, just to get an idea what was out there, maybe give them something to think about. Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town. — Michael Connelly

A grumpy vampire is a homicidal vampire. Hungry ones were even worse. — MaryJanice Davidson

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time. — Wallace Stevens

I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.), for a pear like that would overthrow any god. — Edgar Degas

Here's what I believe. Shit fucking happens. That's rule one. Everybody walking the planet knows that. Rule two: things rarely turn out the way you planned. Three: everybody gets knocked down. Four, and most important of all: after you take those shots, it's time to stand up and walk on - to continue to live. — Duff McKagan

Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement. — Saul Bellow

When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring. — Madeleine M. Kunin

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. — Jean Rostand

He began to wish to know more of her, and as a step towards conversing with her himself, attended to her conversation with others. — Jane Austen