Ixions Quotes & Sayings

It is at night ... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. — Brian W. Aldiss

Jesus said, "Do not throw your pearls to pigs" (Matt. 7:6). By this we don't think he was calling some people pigs. He was saying, "Look - be careful that you do not give something precious to someone who, at best, cannot recognize its beauty, or at worst, will trample on it." Consider your feminine heart and beauty your treasure, your pearls. — John Eldredge

Multi-XMP? You mean more than one Cray? — Michael Crichton

Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below. — Ambrose Bierce

Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine! — Nick Cave

I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Petraeus in Kabul - what I told President Obama in the Oval Office this week. Australia will stand firm with our ally the United States. — Julia Gillard

I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years ... You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist ... I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace. — Muhammad Ali

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. — Kin Hubbard

It takes many, many failures to reach success. — Frank Mir

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing. — Chris Rock

Devoutly the teachers point out huge fumigated domes; but beneath the statues there's no love, no love beneath the eyes set in crystal. Love is there, in flesh ripped by thirst, in the tiny hut struggling against the flood; love is there, in ditches where snakes of hunger wrestle, in the sad sea that rocks dead gulls, and in the darkest stinging kiss under pillows. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King

In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate. — Jack Welch

While frenetic activity, in the end suiting journos; running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off — Paul Keating

When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy. — Jamie Bamber