Epitomy Quotes & Sayings

Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. It wishes for light upon that awful matter, it asks men who know no more law than I know, but who can feel the thing that I felt in that jury box. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity. — G.K. Chesterton

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states. — Ian Bremmer

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out. — Chris Noth

I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs Only You Know. Only a thorough initiate of the scene who also had some genius with language could summon the demotic yet electric voice for the job. If there is ruefulness, now, for the way he treated his body, his girlfriends, and his family, he wisely reprises in his book, in neon detail, the fever that once placed him in the same drunken boat with Iggy Pop, Rimbaud and Artaud. — Jaimy Gordon

He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca. — Gary McCord

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible. — Les Baxter

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives. — Aaron Swartz

No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it's claws in you, picks at your eyes.. — Patrick Suskind

I'll miss you most of all scarecrow. — L. Frank Baum

Heed no nightly noises! for nothing passes door and window here save moonlight and starlight and the wind off the hill-top. — J.R.R. Tolkien