Furtive Listening Quotes & Sayings

Cheers for Edgar Poe! — Jules Verne

If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies? — Zooey Deschanel

Mhisery took a deep breath, gave a small smirk along with a wink and said, "What are you waiting for? The South to rise again, fuck me! — Shyloh Morgan

I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is to constitute it as Sparta and Venice were constituted; to place it in a strong position, and so to fortify it that no one will dream of taking it by a sudden assault; and, on the other hand, not to make it so large as to appear formidable to its neighbors. It should in this way be able to enjoy its form of government for a long time. For war is made on a commonwealth for two reasons: to subjugate it, and for fear of being subjugated by it. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I don't think film schools are mentoring kids. I think they just send them through the curriculum, so now you know how to hold a camera, how to use a Dx3 menu. You can learn that in five minutes from somebody that doesn't even know anything. But what do you know if you haven't read anything - studied art and studied literature - what do you have to contribute? — Rob Nilsson

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman. — John Lydon

Even in Heaven, the most perfect City in the World, there are going to be different levels, different classes, different stages, some very high, some very low. — David Berg

The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:]

It is true that both the woman and the male worker are condemned to silence by their exploitation. But under the current system, the worker's wife is also condemned to silence by her worker-husband. In other words, in addition to the class exploitation common to both of them, women must confront a particular set of relations that exist between them and men, relations of conflict and violence that use physical differences as their pretext. — Thomas Sankara

Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting together and harmonization of the hearts. — Fatima Bint Muhammad

What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live? — Ivy Compton-Burnett

What is the key that unlocks me to be free to be who I want to be? Answer: There is no key. Just choose to be. — Truth Devour

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. — James Russell Lowell

I'm sorry, I don't know what any of you want, or why guns and knives are being waved around, or why the girl has just been taken hostage, but everyone seems to be acting like having a TALKING SKELETON in the room is perfectly normal. And you, where are your eyes? How can you see? How come the only people with eyes in this room are me and her? — Derek Landy

The tyranny of words is only slightly less absolute than that of men; but whereas elections, revolutions, or just the dreary passage of time can do away with human tyranny, patient analysis and redefinition are required to remedy the linguistic affliction. — Ernst B. Haas

The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty. — Ashleigh Brilliant