Inopes Quotes & Sayings

I hate it when people throw big sweeping generalizations at you that you can't even begin to interpret. — Karen Marie Moning

To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. In all this, there is room for both usefulness and beauty to take their due place, but differently according to differences of activity and object. — Colin Gunton

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation. — Herbert Spencer

A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models. — Cameron Russell

Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together. — Sergei Lukyanenko

A typical city dog is neutered and doesn't have much interest in reproducing. However, that's not true of its owner, who will use the dog as an integral part of the pickup process. (Humans are the only animals that use other animals to facilitate mating. Have you ever seen a monkey use a squirrel to pick up another monkey?) — BikeSnobNYC

That's how, on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate-factory roof in 1950 ending up sitting in a row at ten o'clock on a spring morning, drinking Black Label beer supplied by the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank Prison. That beer was piss-warm, but it was still the best I ever had in my life. We sat and drank it and felt the sun on our shoulders, and not even the expression of half-amusement, half-contempt on Hadley's face - as if he was watching apes drink beer instead of men - could spoil it. It lasted twenty minutes, that beer-break, and for those twenty minutes we felt like free men. We could have been drinking beer and tarring the roof of one of our own houses. — Stephen King

Globalization has made national boundaries more porous but not irrelevant. Nor does globalization mean the creation of a universal community. — Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Life is a struggle to elevate ourselves from nobody to somebody, not ever knowing the secret beauties of being nobody! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Your success and happiness lie within you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. — Helen Keller

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.
[Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.] — Horace

We've been given a second chance. Some people never even get a first. Do you know how lucky we are? — Felice Stevens

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing. — John Cage

It's just a crazy old thing. I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like. — F Scott Fitzgerald