Ikasan Quotes & Sayings

(Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record)
I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m. — Noureddine Morceli

A mathematician," he liked to say, "is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. — Mason Currey

You can't make love without art. — Alan Watts

I would like to have great iron claws, and to put them about the pillars, and to pull and pull till everything fell into pieces. Jerome. I don't see what good that would do you. Paul Ruttledge. Oh, yes it would. When everything was pulled down we would have more room to get drunk in, to drink contentedly out of the cup of life, out of the drunken cup of life. — W.B.Yeats

I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one exception came from venturing upon sinful ground or from venturing upon self-support. — Theodore L. Cuyler

Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That is what the proverb says, and it is a true one. Another's wife is a swan, but one's own is bitter wormwood. — Leo Tolstoy

Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things that we carry with us, they're the things that make us what we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away, I need my pain! — William Shatner

Claude Pistal is a creep! He is lucky I'm reasonably mild-mannered like Clark Kent. — Fannie Flagg

My hobby is to make up these "false stories". The stories that I create impact the public in a completely different form... It's enjoyable when it proceeds just as I expect it to. - A-ya — Suzumu

In the article of death, and at the day of judgment, the soul needs something more substantial than ceremonies and rituals to lean upon. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do. — Ringo Starr