Iliano Fichtenschlag Quotes & Sayings

The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud. — Robert Blair

Beta Males make excellent spies. Not the "James Bond, Aston Martin with missiles, boning the beautiful Russian rocket scientist on an ermineskin bedspread" sort of spy - more the "bad comb-over, deep-cover bureaucrat fishing coffee-sodden documents out of a Dumpster" spy. — Christopher Moore

The more you care for others, while denying yourself, the more pleasure life supplies you. — Sunday Adelaja

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. — Woodrow Wilson

The only new thing in the world is the history you don't know, — David McCullough

I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. — Ha-Joon Chang

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together. — Sean Wilentz

Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.' — Andre Breton

You are never defeated in life, you are only a learner. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews. — Carol Tavris

If now the all-mother sends forth her children without protection to a thousand threatening dangers, this can only be because she knows that if they fall they fall back into her womb, where they are safe; therefore their fall is a mere jest. — Arthur Schopenhauer

You're an unpopular man. Memorable-but remarkably unpopular. You have no friends, for instance, in Brooklyn. Around Henry Street, say, where old women sit on the stoops in their aprons and men play dominoes on cardtables by the curb. — James Sallis

We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be. — Grant Morrison

All I know, boy, is that life is, on occasion, entirely too vast for my tastes. — Patrick DeWitt

There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery. — Eugene Delacroix