Elaine Sponge Quotes & Sayings

There are ... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight of fancy to some illness of the psyche, and thus it happens that this or that writer is said to create not other than while imbibing intoxicating drink or that his fantasies are the result of overexcited nerves and resulting fever. But who can fail to know that, while a state of psychical excitement caused by the one or other stimulant may indeed generate some lucky and brilliant ideas, it can never produce a well-founded, substantial work of art that requires the utmost presence of mind. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

Over the years, I have developed a visceral reaction to families and victims expressing surprise at tragedy. Why are we surprised? Why do we forget we are mortal? Bad, bad things happen everywhere, every day. Humans, for better or worse, harbor this feeling that we - individually - are special. A patch of ice or a pea-sized blood clot makes a mockery of that illusion in a heartbeat. We are not special at all. — Michael Perry

It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it. — Julie Burchill

I'm marrying you, not your uterus. — Pamela Clare

Infrastructure is key, but also how it's used, and that's political. — Paul Kagame

I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order ... and place between each of these couples a moistened disk. I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks. — Alessandro Volta

Is it better to be loved or feared? — Niccolo Machiavelli

War, the world's only hygiene. — Filippo Marinetti

With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of men, that necessity constantly to demonstrate masculine sameness, which provided one of the most flattening sources of uniformity. — Donald Horne

The people who influence and touch us most deeply are those who believe what we say. — Paulo Coelho

You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable. — Noel Coward

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs. — David K. E. Bruce

We'll know for the first time If we're evil or divine We're the last in line. — Ronnie James Dio

I'm stubborn. I'm hardheaded. I don't do what I don't want to do. — Michelle Rodriguez

This means the last few years of hard-drive production - which, thanks to increasing size, represents the majority of global storage capacity - would just about fill an oil tanker. So, by that measure, the Internet is smaller than an oil tanker. — Randall Munroe