Etyk Tameio Quotes & Sayings

Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day — Virginia Woolf

Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained. — Richard Sennett

You know, Monsieur, that Age is always a ticklish subject with a Woman. Come! come! — Matthew Gregory Lewis

For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? — Benjamin Franklin

The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself — Dorothy L. Sayers

I think all shows change as they age as do the people who make the shows. As do the people who watch the shows. All targets are moving. — Alex Borstein

I don't think that a novel is supposed to be a guide book to happiness any more than it's supposed to be a journal of one's personal pain and frustration, which most novels are today, unfortunately. I think the novels that are most important are those that are more on the order of those coyotes that howl on the hills outside of town. Something mysterious and wild and hypnotic. — Tom Robbins

I'd recognized it only recently. I wasn't sure if it was because she had changed or I had, but it didn't really matter. I recognized it just the same ... If you just noticed the shiny veneer on the outside, they'd always look perfect. So you had to peer closer, watch them when they didn't think they were being watched. Eventually, you'd notice the dings. — Allison Winn Scotch

Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real. — Amy Neftzger

Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do. — Leif Enger

A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it's going to blow you off the face of the earth. And even if you do, you can't be sure it won't. — L. William Seidman

One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays. — G. Gordon Liddy