Fruer 80s Quotes & Sayings

Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you actually exist. I look at my hands half expecting to see clear through them. — Haruki Murakami

Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise. — Samuel Johnson

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real. — Richard Pousette-Dart

I don't believe in luck; that is why I let black cats cross my path before facing any challenge. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line. — Louis Sullivan

Fear is a huge thing for older people. — James Hillman

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved. — Russell Brand

Scientists who do deny their politics - who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex - are fooling both themselves and the public at large. — Anne Fausto-Sterling

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be. — Jamie Lee Curtis

If you were to go to the National Museum in Addis Ababa, you would walk into a huge room filled with literally tens of tons of fossils, and most of them would be elephants and rhinos and hippopotamus and monkeys and giraffes and antelopes and so on. Hominids are very rare in the landscape, and it's very rare to find them. — Donald Johanson