Jastraban Adrian Quotes & Sayings

He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover. — Kingsley Amis

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement. — Aristotle.

Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation. — Gail Parent

Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards. — David Suzuki

For poise, I picked up a stone and threw it at a tree. — J.D. Salinger

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems. — Kurt Vonnegut

The art of writing is the same as the art of convincing a teacher that you really did do your homework or you studied something that you didn't. It's the art of lying convincingly and it's amazing how much you can learn from a little. — Neil Gaiman

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is. — Douglas Coupland