Fabrikat Quotes & Sayings

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing. — Gerry Mulligan

The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment the subject stops, suspending his gesture, he is mortified. This anti-life, anti-movement function of the terminal point is the fascinum, and it is precisely one of the dimensions in which the power of the gaze is exercised directly. — Jacques Lacan

So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up. — Jay Nordlinger

Success is more like a character than financial status — Debasish Mridha

The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates — Steven Erikson

Shopkeepers are not bankers. — Laurent Fabius

Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace. — Randy Armstrong

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death. — Milan Kundera

ABC forbids political activity by journalists. — Bill Dedman

You talked to me of being young," I said to Jake, "you talked this evening on the bridge of losing something I would never understand. Don't you see what all that has meant to me? I was a boy without the life of a boy. Being young means bondage to me, it means a gaping sepulcher of a house smelling of dust and decay, it means people I have never loved living apart from me in a world of their own where there's no time, it means the stifling personality of my father crushing the spirit of his son, it — Daphne Du Maurier

The Epistle of our being is written with letters full of blood drained from the love of God's Word. — Sorin Cerin

I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting ... . I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children. — Barbara Cooney

My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally. — Max Weinberg