Evlyns Quotes & Sayings

I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to understand me. — Golan Levin

I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed, often driving my parents crazy with unanswerable questions. — Missy Higgins

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. — Hannibal

The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient. — Joe Queenan

Because Jesus came to set the captives free, life does not have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, and validate ourselves. — Preston Sprinkle

The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species. — Julian Jaynes

Like so much of the trouble in the world
it ends simply with exhaustion. — Toby Barlow

By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero, when he says (De Oratore, 2): 'men who are accustomed to hard daily toil, when by reason of the weather they are kept from their work, betake themselves to playing with a ball, or with knucklebones or with dice, or they may also contrive for themselves some new game at their leisure.' — Gerolamo Cardano

If my life were like the novels, this would be the dark period in act two after my one true love rejects me, where I reel off to do things I have to apologize for in act three. — Julio Alexi Genao

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it. — Cesare Pavese

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect. — Karen Marie Moning

When I turn back to Jase, he's again beaming at me. "You're nice." He sounds pleased, as if he hadn't expected this aspect of my personality. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new? — Georg C. Lichtenberg

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing. — Kurt Vonnegut