Encuentres Quotes & Sayings

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America. — Michel Houellebecq

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud. — David Bowie

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind. — Jenny Downham

Every true poet is a monster.
He destroys people and their speech.
His singing elevates a technique that wipes out
the earth so we are not eaten by worms.
The drunk sells his coat.
The thief sells his mother.
Only the poet sells his soul to separate it
from the body that he loves. — Tomaz Salamun

That little green drink inspired hallucination is right! — Rocko

Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid said to me, 'I want to give it all up,' whatever it is that they're doing, 'and I want to take my saxophone and go out,' I would say, 'May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you're doing.' — Hugh Laurie

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men. — Phyllis Schlafly

We co-create when we reach out and touch souls. Like rays of light - where they converge - twice as bright. — Bryant McGill

Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo ... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of which great grownup babies are expected to hide their eyes. — Clive Bell

A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane ... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

In the Hindu religion, one can[not] have freedom of speech. A Hindu must surrender his freedom of speech. He must act according to the Vedas. If the Vedas do not support the actions, instructions must be sought from the Smritis, and if the Smritis fail to provide any such instructions, he must follow in the footsteps of the great men.
He is not supposed to reason. Hence, so long as you are in the Hindu religion, you cannot expect to have freedom of thought — B.R. Ambedkar

Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,
one pure, the other impure. — Augustus William Hare

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. — Robert James Waller

I'd like to get a degree. You ever see the movie 'Back to School?' I'll go back with my kids. — Derek Jeter