Existenz 1999 Quotes & Sayings

When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a rock star, but he's kind of a rock star to me. — John Varvatos

Have no doubt it is fear in the land. For what can men do when so many have grown lawless? Who can enjoy the lovely land, who can enjoy the seventy years, and the sun that pours down on the earth, when there is fear in the heart? Who can walk quietly in the shadow of the jacarandas, when their beauty is grown to danger? Who can lie peacefully abed, while the darkness holds some secret? What lovers can lie sweetly under the stars, when menace grows with the measure of their seclusion? — Alan Paton

(The only time making a fist around the fork helps is when you want to stab someone because he's stealing your food. Now I know stabbing people is really rude, so I hold my fork in the grown-up way all the time, and I rely on discreet snarls to protect my dinner from predators.) — John Elder Robison

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I hated that I wasn't in control. I hadn't been in control my entire life, and this was just another instance in which men believed they knew
better. — Pepper Winters

I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama. — Marianne Faithfull

Is refusing to give up, believing in dreams not yet seen, and knowing God gives us both. Hope — Lorilyn Roberts

No, sweetheart, you don't understand," Noc declared, striding through the door and into the
hall. "They didn't get it. Now they'll get it. — Kristen Ashley

To be on the road, even if you're not that happy, is all right, as long as I'm pourin' me heart into it. — Joe Cocker

The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds. — Steve Martin

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps. — Art Spiegelman

I try not to return to these moments very often, for I end up lacerating my young self for not simply kissing the girl. I thought we had time. Despite everything, I believed somehow there was time. Love's first mistake. Perhaps love's only mistake. — Lily King

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. — John Ashbery

A bird foraging for food in the swamps and marshes sinks rapidly if it doesn't move. It has to keep pulling its feet out of the mire to move on, regardless of whether it has caught something or not. And the same applies to us and to our love. We have to move on, we can't stay where we are, because we'll sink. — Milorad Pavic

Textbooks in economics, which explain the economic purpose of money (a unit of account, a store of value, and a means of exchange), usually neglect to mention the chief role of money in America: a source of entertainment. — Michael Lewis