Gesar Mukpo Quotes & Sayings

In a sense, every story or poem is a vacation. — Thomas C. Foster

How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important. — Pat McBride

There is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas or propaganda. On the one hand we are dealing with a virus which can be transported and transmitted under certain conditions which favor or limit its transportation or transmission: on the other hand with ideas, religions, and doctrines, which can be described as germs, benevolent or malevolent, according to the point of view one takes up. These germs can either remain at their source and be sterile, or emerge in the spreading of infection. — Andre Siegfried

Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing. — Nadia Boulanger

Who's to blame when your kid goes nuts? Is it a blessing to not have children? 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' became a hit cult book for women without offspring who were finally able to admit they didn't want to give birth. They felt complete, thank you very much, and lived in silent resentment for years at other women's pious, unwanted sympathy toward them for not having babies. With even gay couples having children these days, aren't happy heterosexual women who don't want to have kids the most ostracized of us all? To me they are beautiful feminists. If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us. — John Waters

What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms? — Mark Twain

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. — Naomi Wolf

In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires. — Swami Parthasarathy

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God — R.C. Sproul

I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but ... I haven't read them. — Max Irons

Almost all sadness comes from feeling sorry for oneself. — Marty Rubin

The thrush called strangeness into the sunset. — Georg Trakl

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination - through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction. — A. Bartlett Giamatti