Jakab Istvan Quotes & Sayings

I like a high boot on a girl. — Ashton Kutcher

Were they ready to give up everything for their country? I felt ready to give up everything, not really for my country, but in general. — Michel Houellebecq

You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt ... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills ... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really ... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.) — Eve Babitz

I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring, and I was dancing with younger dancers. — Wendy Whelan

One of the essential characteristics of the state of exception-the provisional abolition of the distinction among legislative, executive, and judicial powers-here shows its tendency to become a lasting practice of government. — Giorgio Agamben

Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22). He's joking about the fact that Ireland wanted to be connected to continental Europe but ended up being extremely isolated. — James Joyce

Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years! — Richard Henry Stoddard

I'm hip to their game, hip to the science of war
Propoganda makes me fight but what am I fightin for?
My way of life? Beans and rice? Give and take, less or more?
See through the eyes of the poor, plus I'm black to the core
Ignorance is on tour bookin stadiums and more
The days of hitler painted pictures patriotic before
You raise your flag on a land snatched from bald eagles claw, and stamp the symbol on your currency to finance your war.
I'm sayin no.
Not in my name.
Not in my life.
Not by my hands.
That ain't my fight.
Not in my name.
You wage your war against terrorists and violence, and try to wave your guns and fear us all into silence.
NO. — Saul Williams

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code. — Bjarne Stroustrup

We don't take each other for granted," Gavin says, "which is where I think a lot of couples come unstuck. — B.T. Hogan