Janecek Performance Quotes & Sayings

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it. — Oswald Spengler

I'm curious to see what kind of distribution it's going to get because of that. — Caroline Dhavernas

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? — J.D. Salinger

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy. — Hari Kunzru

No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not. — Gregory Maguire

Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason. — Carol Gilligan

Outside the wind had picked up a little. Isaac sheltered his prize and walked quickly up the little alley that adjoined The Dying Child with Paddler Way and his workshop-home. He pushed open the green doors with his bum and backed into the building. Isaac's laboratory had been a factory and a warehouse years ago, and its huge, dusty floorspace swamped the little benches and retorts and blackboards that perched in its corners. — China Mieville

Something's just not right," he said, shaking his head, "not by a long shot. — Brom