Eyvindur Palsson Quotes & Sayings

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. — Denis Diderot

The road was wet with rain, black and shiny like oilskin. The reflection of the street lamps wallowed like yellow jelly-fish. A bus was approaching - a bus to Piccadilly, a bus to the never-never land - a bus to death or glory.
I found neither. I found something which haunts me still.
The great bus swayed as it sped. The black street gleamed. Through the window a hundred faces fluttered by as though the leaves of a dark book were being flicked over. And I sat there, with a sixpenny ticket in my hand. What was I doing! Where was I going?
("Same Time, Same Place") — Mervyn Peake

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

(In response to 'In the end moral and political truths have to proved on the body.[ ie put one's body on the line to prove a truth]
That's a very dangerous idea. It comes quite close to saying that the willingness to suffer proves the rightness of belief. But is doesn't. The most it can ever prove is the believer's sincerity. And not always that. some people just like suffering. — Pat Barker

This your bomb? I'm here to return it to you. Up your ass.

Hey, speaking of which, you used to work with Iron Fist a lot, right?

How is that 'SPEAKING OF WHICH?!!- Power man & Deadpool — Daniel Way

Then Diana puts too many murders into [her stories]. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them. — L.M. Montgomery

In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone. — Albert Camus

With constant practice, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one's self useful to himself and all mankind. — Dharma Mittra

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent. — Martial

No matter how great the love, the pain, the sadness, the power of a heart, no one can recreate the sea. Nowhere else. — Ondjaki

Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect. — Barack Obama

The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying. — Joel Stein