Figurski Historia Quotes & Sayings

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do ( ... ) Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along? — Leo Tolstoy

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts. — Loren Eiseley

You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy. — Nellie McKay

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power. — Joyce Carol Oates

In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate. — Evan Sayet

I sat in a spluttering, bleeding heap protesting that I was fine and all I needed was a quiet corner to go and die in and everything would be all right. — Douglas Adams

Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might guess, the results are looking very promising. — Richelle Mead

Willingly Andras followed him into the curved halls of calculus, where the problem of Madame Morgenstern could not exist because it could not be described by an equation. — Julie Orringer