Fakirs Def Quotes & Sayings

We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us — Dean Cavanagh

Good values are like a magnet, they attract good people. — John Wooden

After graduating from our school, they went into the Woods expecting epic battles with monsters and wizards, only to find their fairy tales unfold right in their own houses. They didn't realize that villains are the ones closest to us. They didn't realize that to find a happy ending, a hero must first look right under his nose. — Soman Chainani

Steven Gerrard is the best player I've ever played with. — Luis Suarez

I love Gwen Stefani's style, I think she's dope. — LIZ

To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths. — Fred D'Aguiar

What usually comes first is the contract. — Ira Gershwin

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. — A.R. Ammons

What do you need the mythology? ... Rituals evoke it. Consider the position of judges in our society, which Campbell saw in mythological, not sociological, terms. If this position were just a role, the judge could wear a gray suit to court instead of the magisterial black robe. For the law to hold authority beyond mere coercion, the power of the judge must be ritualized, mythologized. So must much of life today, Campbell said, from religion and war to love and death. — Joseph Campbell

And I twisted it wrong just to make it right
Had to leave myself behind — Ben Folds

By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison. But below that, there's a part of us that responds to the Who bashing their instruments to pieces on the stage. There's a very primitive part that says, "Do it some more." — Stephen King

Perhaps he should have fallen to his knees and given thanks to the gods for their unlikely victory but the red harvest sword-hacked and arrow-stuck about the ruin did not look like a thing to give thanks for. — Joe Abercrombie

See, you think I give a shit. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of shit? That's why I look interested. — Justin Halpern