Fichera Quotes & Sayings

Please don't kill me! — George W. Bush

The fire was set in the Library of Records by the Baudelaire murderers, and has spread to the Sore Throat Ward, the Stubbed Toe Ward, and the Accidentally Swallowed Something You Shouldn't Have Ward. — Lemony Snicket

Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction. — Elizabeth Hardwick

But the truth is, there's little even the most organized people can do to prepare themselves for having children. They can buy all the books, observe friends and relations, review their own memories of childhood. But the distance between those proxy experiences and the real thing, ultimately, can be measured in light-years. — Jennifer Senior

It's easy to be forgetful when you're grieving, even forget those things that you believe most people wouldn't. — Liz Fichera

What if Beatriz Preciado is right - what if we've entered a new, post-Fordist era of capitalism that Preciado calls the "pharma-copornographic era," whose principal economic resource is nothing other than "the insatiable bodies of the multitudes - their cocks, clitorises, anuses, hormones, and neurosexual synapses ... [our] desire, excitement, sexuality, seduction, and ... pleasure"? — Maggie Nelson

One hello can change a day. One hug can change a life. One hope can change a destiny. — Lynda Cheldelin Fell

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. — Isaac Asimov

[...] we can find no true or existent fact, no true assertion, without there being a sufficient reason why it is thus and not otherwise, although most of the time these reasons cannot be known to us. — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

We are bastards of the gods, Sorvus, you and I. I once shared the dream you seem to think you are now living. The dream of living here, in Northbrook, the birthplace of our mothers." Thais turned his head to the trees. He heard something. "Such deception. — Madison Thorne Grey

Two lusts breed in the soul of man: the lust for aggresion, and the lust for telling lies. If one will not allow himself to wrong others, he will wrong himself. If he doesn't come across anyone to lie to, he will lie to himself in his own thoughts. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

Modesty is not one of my virtues. — Alan King

I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections. — Paul Nurse

The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid. — Tommy Armour

Roddick has good presence on the court and has so much adrenalin. — Richard Krajicek

When you can't enter through the front door, kick in a window. — Liz Fichera