Ecotage Quotes & Sayings

I mean that reading forms your opinions, your worldview, especially childhood reading, and anything that does that has an impact. So call them friends, call some stories enemies if you want, but don't deny their influence. — Katherine Reay

Baby, Andy once said that beauty is a sign of intelligence.'
She turns slowly to look at me. 'Who, Victor? Who? Andy who?' She coughs, blowing her nose. 'Andy Kaufman? Andy Griffith? Who in the hell told you this? Andy Rooney?'
'Warhol,' I say softly, hurt. 'Baby ... — Bret Easton Ellis

The truth: after just one novel, I had lost touch with my muse. The quietly desperate, jaded girl in my head had stopped slinging sardonic wit into my psyche. — Roz Bailey

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot. — Norah Jones

Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted only in the "Northwest Passage" and, even there, only by highly imaginative and overenthusiastic novelists. — David A. Embury

I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb ... — Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave. — Joseph Campbell

The immigration must be limited, that is, first and foremost the foreign cultural one. — Carl I. Hagen

The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice. — Lactantius

Chernobyl, an accident or the most successful anti-Marxist attack in recorded history? — Anders Breivik

The future is much simpler than you think. — K. K. Barrett

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages. — Aldous Huxley

Cobb was in a Klan group back in the 60's, and told me stories about how they used to throw live 'coons, possums, porcupines, or ganders into Black houses at night in attempts to run them out of Johnston and Harnett County. Cobb said that late one night, he and three or four other local rednecks snuck up on the house of one Black family, peered through the window and saw a huge Black woman sitting in front of a TV watching Gunsmoke, with a gang of children all around her.
The window was open and Cobb threw a live possum in her lap. Cobb said she squalled about the loudest and longest he'd ever heard, and jumped about four feet up in the air. Cobb then ran and jumped into a nearby ditch to observe what would happen next, and it wasn't long before they saw the Black woman bust out of the back door and run across a cotton field with a trail of children behind. Cobb said she was as wide as three rows of cotton, but fast and agile. She outran all the young'uns. — Frazier Glenn Miller

Joad rolled the coat up more tightly. "An old turtle,' he said. "Picked him up on the road. An old bulldozer. Thought I'd take 'im to my little brother. Kids like turtles. — John Steinbeck