Failings Basement Quotes & Sayings

Is it possible that that "thing" walking back and forth in front of you, talking to you, is a great glob of these atoms in a very complex arrangement, such that the sheer complexity of it staggers the imagination as to what it can do? When — Richard Feynman

A horrible end is better than endless horror. — Oliver Markus

I look upon those who assure me they had a 'happy childhood' as either pathological liars, or pariahs. — Harlan Ellison

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. — Ambrose Bierce

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution — George Orwell

Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence. — H.L. Mencken

Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me. — Confucius

What would it be life to forget your favourite colour? Or the girl that smashed up your heart? — Tarryn Fisher

To be a star, you must walk your own path, shine your own light and not be afraid of the darkness, that's when a star shines the brightest. — Joel Brown

It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything. — Selma Blair

Some people, some nations, are permanently in shade. Some people cast a shadow. Lengths of elongated darkness precede them, even in church or when the sun is in, as they say, mopped up by the dirty cloth of the could. A puddle of dark forms around their feet. It's very pine like. The pine and darkness are one. Eucalypts are unusual in this respect: set pendulously their leaves allow see-through foliage which in turn produces a frail patterned sort of shade, if at all. Clarity, lack of darkness-these might be called 'eucalyptus qualities'. — Murray Bail

He'd score more goals if he was a better finisher. — Dion Dublin

In my mind's eye, it seemed like the way it was supposed to happen. — Gary Cameron