Etskovitz Quotes & Sayings

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man. — G.K. Chesterton

We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change. — Simon Van Booy

It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over ... — Mary Oliver

When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world. — Tupac Shakur

Well, I'm not only a direct descendent of the Anunnaki, but I'm one of the original hybrids. My royal blood is almost pure as I was begotten from the strongest and most ancient of our kind. — J.M. Northup

Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn't do Kung Fu?' — Sung Kang

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get. — John Banville

Outsider music sometimes develops naturally. In other cases, it could be the product of damaged DNA, psychotic seizures, or alien abduction. Perhaps medical malpractice, incarceration, or simple drug-fry triggers its evolution. Maybe shrapnel in the head. Possession by the devil-or submission to Jesus. Chalk it up to communal upbringing or bad beer. There's no universal formula. — Irwin Chusid

This is the history of the world with perhaps a stronger dash of hypocrisy than usual to soothe our feelings. — Gregg Jones

If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things. — Victoria Legrand

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind! — Mary Wollstonecraft

The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women ... He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights. — Jane Austen

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. — Warren Buffett

while the earth, which in reality is only an imperceptible point in nature, appears to our fond imaginations as something so grand and noble. He then represented to himself the human species, as it really is, as a parcel of insects devouring one another on a little atom of clay. This true image seemed to annihilate his misfortunes, by making him sensible of the nothingness of his own being — Voltaire