Gauloises Caporal Quotes & Sayings

I was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they can look back at it and say, "Wow, I was destroying myself." But during the period, they think they're doing the right thing. You just have to let the smoke clear so you can see the whole picture. — Ice-T

Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive excursions, in their evocation of dreams, mysterious places and states of mind, in their excess of words, not events. The surface of the texts, the sound of the words, point to themselves as manufactured, as illusion. The decadents attempted to create texts that announced themselves as artifice. — Asti Hustvedt

If I could grant wishes do you think I would be driving a cab? — Neil Gaiman

Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure. — Rupert Murdoch

If our world is regulated by reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of Darwin; or reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of religious dogma; you end up being childishly anti-scientific, and childishly anti-religious, and you miss the very complex interaction [they share] — Cornel West

You travel to lush looted countries. parts of earth laying on their sides. barely breathing. hot with rust, infection, and tourist anemia. you and your camera arrive. start tearing at bodies with your lust. it's harmless. appreciating culture. sharing. honoring clothing. the way certain skin exists. — Nayyirah Waheed

Loyalty is the world's only currency and it depreciates constantly. — Jarett Kobek

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world. — Louis Agassiz

If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware. — John A. Sanford

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business. — Austan Goolsbee

All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together. — Octavia E. Butler

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration. — Tim Johnson

When is man strong until he feels alone? Colombe's Birthday — Robert Browning

We were perceived as a post-grunge band. — Daniel Johns

The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance. — R.L. LaFevers