Fleshies Band Quotes & Sayings

I had been seeing that shim in a kind of intellectual, rational, cerebral way in which the scientific properties of the metal were all that counted. John was going at it immediately and intuitively, grooving on it. I was going at it in terms of underlying form. He was going at it in terms of immediate appearance. I was seeing what the shim meant. He was seeing what the shim was. — Robert M. Pirsig

What a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life. — Nadine Gordimer

THE TWAIN DOTH MEET
East and West are relative to their shared starting point
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

Dr. Jules Hilbert: Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted.
Harold Crick: What is wrong with you? Hey, I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led ... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes. — Zach Helm

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. — W. Somerset Maugham

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever. — Os Guinness

From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers. — Muriel Spark