Excising The Saphenous Vein Quotes & Sayings

Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide. — Jack Kelly

In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made. — Michael Bloomberg

It would be a nice place if you took all the people out of the city. — John McEnroe

This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a fictive one. — Reif Larsen

Rachel had been worried she couldn't remember what Sam looked like; now she worried he wouldn't recognize her. — Kim Van Alkemade

Nd she sees, like in a vision, that life and the future are going to be way more complicated than she ever expected, impossibly, unbearably complicated and difficult. In that same moment she feels herself grow older, like she's finished a level in a video game and moved on invisibly to the next stage; it's a tiredness that takes over her body, a tiredness like nothing before, like she's swallowed a ton weight ... — Paul Murray

I've always been a fan of therapy. You spend an entire hour talking about yourself and someone has to fake being fascinated by the strange assemblage of minutiae that is you. — Jenny Lawson

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems.
Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them. — Toba Beta

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s. — Alex North

Science will ... produce the data ... , but never the
full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we
shall need ... most of all the brains of poets, [and]
also those of artists, musicians, philosophers,
historians, writers in general. — Lewis Thomas

Is Virgin you trying to
fathom me — Jack Kerouac

Kruppe nodded. Kruppe is no fool, K'rul. He openly opposes no one, and he finds power a thing to be avoided at all costs. — Steven Erikson

There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up. — Indra Nooyi

What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it? — Friedrich Nietzsche