Filomel Quotes & Sayings

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie. — Rian Johnson

Golosh Street is an interesting locality. All the oddities of trade seemed to have found their way thither and made an eccentric mercantile settlement. There is a bird-shop at one corner. Immediately opposite is an establishment where they sell nothing but ornaments made out of the tinted leaves of autumn, varnished and gummed into various forms. Further down is a second-hand book-stall. There is a small chink between two ordinary-sized houses, in which a little Frenchman makes and sells artificial eyes, specimens of which, ranged on a black velvet cushion, stare at you unwinkingly through the window as you pass, until you shudder and hurry on, thinking how awful the world would be if everyone went about without eyelids. Madame Filomel, the fortune-teller, lives at No. 12 Golosh Street, second storey front, pull the bell on the left-hand side. Next door to Madame is the shop of Herr Hippe, commonly called the Wondersmith.
("The Wondersmith") — Fitz-James O'Brien

Infighting would be stupid, since, y'know, claws and teeth. — Michael R. Underwood

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich. — C.L.R. James

You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think it's general British-press hype. — Stephen Malkmus

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. — H.G.Wells

It must be pointed out that the level of the total stock of money and of the value of the money unit are matters of complete indifference as far as the utility obtained from the use of the money is concerned. Society is always in enjoyment of the maximum utility obtainable from the use of money. Half of the money at the disposal of the community would yield the same utility as the whole stock, even if the variation in the value of the monetary unit was not proportioned to the variation in the stock of money. — Ludwig Von Mises

I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it. — Ezra Koenig

Forget perfect. Be quick. Quickness kills. — Ehab Atalla

Obscurity is the realm of error. — Luc De Clapiers