Inherent Vice Shasta Quotes & Sayings

People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

I think a book is your calling card, your business card. — Kevin O'Leary

We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy. — Ian Svenonius

I'm currently imagining a few creative ways of causing you extraordinary amounts of pain."
Kingsley raised his chin. Mere inches separated their faces.
"Stop flirting. You know we don't have time for that. — Tiffany Reisz

How do you know, Dan? You were so young when they died. Do you really remember them?" "Not in my mind," Dan replied, gazing at the passing scenery. "But everyplace else ... — Peter Lerangis

Los Angelenos dress like they've been focus-grouped. — Douglas Coupland

One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it. — Max Stirner

I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes. — Kerry Washington

Toby Keith writes songs like 1993's "Should've Been a Cowboy," and what's compelling is that you can't deconstruct its message. "Should've Been a Cowboy" is not like Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive," where Jon Bon Jovi claimed to live like a cowboy; Toby Keith wants to be a cowboy for real. — Chuck Klosterman

I've voted for Republicans who were strong on defense, who believed in a free and open economy but who also understood that there's a place for government in our lives, that government has a responsibility to those of our citizens who are in need and those of our citizens who are needy of health care. — Colin Powell

Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you — Munia Khan

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. — Jonathan Swift

Science tells you love is just a chemical reaction in the brain,
Let me be your Bunsen burner baby, let me be your naked flame! — John Otway

we never own the work of God. We are simply stewards of it. — Christine Caine

So it is very helpful to begin to recognize this comparing mind, this conceit of "I'm better than" or "I'm worse than" someone else. When we do not see it clearly, it becomes the source of much suffering. It makes us feel separated and apart from others; we reinforce the contraction of self. — Joseph Goldstein