Isfatal Quotes & Sayings

But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature. — George Tenet

The novelist's
any writer's
object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen. — Elizabeth Bowen

The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

america...is the interplay of three hundred million rube goldberg contraptions invented only yesterday — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader. — Charles Stross

If your religion does not work at home, don't export it. — Howard G. Hendricks

Didn't he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist? — Christopher Bram

Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective — Tony Robbins

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. — Anonymous

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. — Robert Noyce

Joan of Arc should be played as a "pain in the ass" and how do I know she was a "pain in the ass"? ... because they burn her at the end. — Harold Clurman

It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting. — Eliza Dushku