Displays By Jack Quotes & Sayings

I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember that the children's books were in the right-hand corner near the floor. Often when I went there, I was the only visitor. — Anita Shreve

Everything in moderation, including moderation. — Oscar Wilde

Good, modern, civilized Western white men are so easily cowed by charges of bias and privilege that they work tirelessly to outdo each other with social displays of moral universalism - by cucking themselves in every way imaginable. Western — Jack Donovan

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple

Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony — Munia Khan

The blood pumping through her veins when she landed a vault like that one always felt like exclamation points. — Caela Carter

Like love, ideology is blind, even if people caught up in it are not — Slavoj Zizek

I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories. — D.H. Lawrence

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. — Frank Crane

The widespread willingness to rely on thermonuclear bombs as the ultimate weapon displays a cavalier attitude toward death that has always puzzled me. My impression is that ... most of the defenders of these weapons are not suitably horrified at the possibility of a war in which hundreds of millions of people would be killed ... I suspect that an important factor may be belief in an afterlife, and that the proporttion of those who think that death is not the end is much higher among the partisans of the bomb than among its opponents. — Thomas Nagel

The key to successful business is self belief and application. — Felix Dennis

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything. — Pete Townshend

I haven't done an international film for a long time. — Sadie Frost