Gaukurinn Quotes & Sayings

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction. — John Lennon

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. — Bil Keane

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy. — Thomas Sowell

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists. — Jeff Koons

My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do. — Jesse James Garrett

the Poor Men of Lyons, — Mark Kurlansky

I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for. — Joe Budden

Men are sex machines, said Aunt Lydia, and not much more. They only want one thing. You must learn to manipulate them, for your own good. — Margaret Atwood

Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life is what we want it to be may conceivably bring about the desired condition. Hence religious parables, socialist realism, Nazi propaganda. And if this story likewise crawls with reactionary supernaturalism, that might be because its author longs to see letters scuttling across ceilings, cautiously beginning to reify themselves into angels. For if they could only do that, then why not us? — William T. Vollmann

We want recognition, not accomplishment. — Gavin De Becker

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933. — Fritz Sauckel

I thank the Savior personally; for bearing all which I added to His hemorrhaging at every pore for all humanity in Gethsemane. I thank Him for bearing what I added to the decibels of His piercing soul cry atop Calvary. — Neal A. Maxwell

The stars are the land-marks of the universe. — John Herschel