Jar Opener Quotes & Sayings

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? — Jean Cocteau

Our ego occupies so much space, there is little room for anything else. — Nilesh Rathod

For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in. — Julia Bacha

I did not know, however, that ancient glories imply, at least in the middle of the present century, present fatigue and, quite probably, paranoia; that there is a limit to the role of intelligence in human affairs; and that no people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. — James Baldwin

incurable lover of the grotesque — H.P. Lovecraft

She wears her grief like a coat of feathers too heavy for flight. — Libba Bray

Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved. — Andrew McAleer

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here. — Harry S. Truman

The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts. — Ezra Pound

The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the same feeling toward theologians that sportsmen cherish toward poachers. — Thomas Huxley

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true. — Alfred Molina

A computer model which manipulated data about itself and its "surroundings" in essentially the same way as an organic brain would have to possess essentially the same mental states. "Simulated consciousness" was as oxymoronic as "simulated addition. — Greg Egan

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life. — Henry Cabot Lodge