Iskustvo Obmana Quotes & Sayings

What doesn't draw you into a Coen Bros. movie. It's amazing. I can't believe it! They're the Coen Bros. It's ridiculous. — Carey Mulligan

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. When soldiers take their oath they are given a coin, an asimi stamped with the profile of the Autarch. Their acceptance of that coin is their acceptance of the special duties and burdens of military life - they are soldiers from that moment, though they may know nothing of the management of arms. I did not know that then, but it is a profound mistake to believe that we must know of such things to be influenced by them, and in fact to believe so is to believe in the most debased and superstitious kind of magic. The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all. — Gene Wolfe

Parents are supposed to pass down physical traits to their children, but it's my belief that all sorts of other things get passed down, too: motifs, scenarios, even fates. — Jeffrey Eugenides

coffee can energize the industrious at dawn, calm the reflective at noon, or raise the spirits of the beleagured in the middle of the night. "It's — Amor Towles

Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy — Ralph Ellison

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts. — Margaret Bourke-White

When we encourage others
With no personal motives,
We raise high, very high,
Humanity's progress-standard. — Sri Chinmoy