Gablik Quotes & Sayings

Batman never questions the logic of letting a childhood experience dictate his entire life. — Chuck Klosterman

The idea that in prehistoric times a man would spend his life hunting only for the benefit of his own wife and children, who were dependent solely upon his hunting prowess for survival, is simply a projection of 1950s marital norms onto the past. — Stephanie Coontz

The great policies of world history, 'the wheels of the world', are often turned not by the Lords and Governors, even gods, but by the seemingly unknown and weak. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Love finds you, not the other way around, and you can't run from it. — Dianna Hardy

Down cycles are not fun. But they form the basis for enormous future profitability — Stephen A. Schwarzman

What is especially ironic about these professors' rhetoric of "otherness" and "queerness" is that they are, in fact, by any real-world measure, extremely conservative, lockstep, institutional, careerist creatures. Their sense of identification with their universities, their departments, and their fields of "study", not to mention the obvious way they size one another up by their titles, academic affiliation, and publications, is stifling. So are their endless pious references to Marx, Foucault, and Derrida, which bring to mind the obligatory nods to the Great Leader at some Communist Party congress. — Bruce Bawer

I'm like those placid dogs a family buys when the dog they choose first is too high strung. I'm the pet's pet. — Susan Mallery

Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable? — James Wolcott

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers. — Lorrie Moore

Now comes good sailing. — Henry David Thoreau

A mouse has to do what a mouse has to do — Avi

If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less spinach. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles. — Don Herold