Discommodes Quotes & Sayings

Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals. — Denis Parsons Burkitt

The dreams she had been having were mixing with reality to the extent that she could no longer be certain what was real and what was not. And what was reality? Her life here in this tiny room, within these four walls- was this in fact, her reality? Or was this nothing but a relentless nightmare, one that she would never wake from? — D.R. Ryan

If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency, — Eugene McCarthy

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real. — Lindsay Duncan

Gucci Mane is my favorite artist. — Fetty Wap

Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct them...what people remember about the past, [Kahneman and Tversky] suggested, is likely to warp their judgement of the future. "We often decide that an outcome is extremely unlikely or impossible, because we are unable to imagine any chain of events that could cause it to occur. The defect, often, is in our imagination. — Michael Lewis

If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital: — Russell Kirk

You are on the freeway threading through traffic now,
moving both towards something and towards nothing at all as you punch
the radio on and get Mozart, which is something, and you will somehow
get through the slow days and the busy days and the dull
days and the hateful days and the rare days, all both so delightful
and so disappointing because
we are all so alike and so different. — Charles Bukowski

I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies. — Imelda Marcos

Christian Grey, expect the unexpected - fifty shades of fucked-up. — E.L. James

America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Art is a kind of rapture. Surrender enough, you find truth. — Kirsty Eagar

There's nothing left of me.
I'm like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
Is it still a stone, or a world
made of redness? It has no resistance
to sunlight. — Rumi