Jedermann Cafe Quotes & Sayings

I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me. — William Shakespeare

We don't need a point, son. We're juvenile, we're dirty, we don't have girls, we have noses full of snot, throats sore as hell, we've got scabs on us, we suffer bouts of acne, we've got no girls ... What more reasons do we need? — Markus Zusak

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. — Chuck Palahniuk

Bomb-proof vault. Our diseases are our attachments, be they habits, ideologies, ideals, principles, possessions, phobias, gods, cults, religions, what you please. Good wages can be a disease just as much as bad wages. Leisure can be just as great a disease as work. Whatever we cling to, even if it be hope or faith, can be the disease which carries us off. Surrender is absolute: if you cling to even the tiniest crumb you nourish the germ which will devour you. — Henry Miller

An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century. While there are most certainly factory owners in China whom we would rightly regard as criminal in their treatment of their workers, it is very important not to confuse these incidents with the phenomenon of globalization. It is a good thing that Wal-Mart is encouraging more humane standards in its supplier's factories. — Michael Strong

I feel like I'm somebody else tonight. — Kirsty Eagar

Adam stopped by one of the beasts near the front; its shoulder was taller than him, its great skull even higher, and above it all spread a set of antlers that seemed massive in comparison even to the giant skeleton. It was beautiful. — Maggie Stiefvater

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you! — Dorothy Parker

I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well. — Stephen King

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion. — John Jay Chapman

The nicest thing you did was to take me seriously when a lot of people wouldn't have, but not too seriously, which was just right. — Katharine Graham

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once. — James Nachtwey

A great mind is not sharpened by consorting with lesser minds. — Matshona Dhliwayo