Jacek Kaczmarski Quotes & Sayings

In the cramped confines of the toilet I had trouble getting out of my wet trousers, which clung to my legs like a drowning man. The new ones were quite complicated too in that they had more legs than a spider; either that or they didn't have enough legs to get mine into. The numbers failed to add up. Always there was one trouser leg too many or one of my legs was left over. From the outside it may have looked like a simple toilet, but once you were locked in here the most basic rules of arithmetic no longer held true. — Geoff Dyer

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places. — John Cale

He must have made a deal with the devil to come back. — Lynsay Sands

I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children. — Kelly Corrigan

If you don't follow a good nutritional plan, you're bodybuilding with one arm behind your back. — Shawn Ray

Yoga will always be transformational, even when it stops being cool. (350) — Victoria Moran

The longest tyranny that ever sway'd
Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd
Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle],
And made his torch their universal light.
So truth, while only one suppli'd the state,
Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate. — John Dryden

Don't waste your time living someone else's life. — Chris Guillebeau

There's a time and purpose for being lost. If you don't judge the being lost you get through it sooner. — Danielle LaPorte

Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool. — Donald Barthelme

To learn is to be young, however old. — Aeschylus

Always been, and the safety of the Republic would be assured. This was a presumption buried deep in the soul of every Roman. — Tom Holland

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name. — Jill Lepore

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought. — Lyndon B. Johnson