Graping Quotes & Sayings

All I know is that I am not a Marxist. — Karl Marx

God knows the war sucks, but he sees no great appeal in these tepid peacetime lives. — Ben Fountain

I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information. — Philip Treacy

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal". — Bertrand Russell

Without that discovery of the "moving photo," the world today would not be what it is: the new technology has become, primo, the principal agent of stupidity (incomparably more powerful than the bad literature of old: advertisements, television series); and secundo, the agent of worldwide indiscretion (cameras secretly filming political adversaries in compromising situations, immortalizing the pain of a half-naked woman laid out on a stretcher after a street bombing). It is true that film as art does also exist, but its significance is far more limited than that of film as technology, and its history is certainly shorter than that of any other art. — Milan Kundera

I like to think coffee comes from beans; therefore, it's a vegetable. — Jim Gaffigan

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Whatever controls us really is our god ... The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our life. (Rebecca Manley Pippert, — Timothy Keller

What matters is not what is going on in your life, but how you are responding to it. — Sunday Adelaja

I may speak freely, my lord," began Tuck. "I doubt anything in heaven or earth could prevent you," remarked Bran. "Speak, priest. — Stephen R. Lawhead