Jochums Refuse Quotes & Sayings

Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity - civilization's backbone - that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized. And made of paper and ink, and thus they come from the earth. Their physicality is what makes them immensely human. And they contain the flesh-and-bone thoughts of one person capturing one blink of time, now made immortal in the bound pages carried by your own hands and touched by your own eyes. How can such fragile and thin paper and spidery veins of ink be our most precious treasure, binding together the entire hope and legacy and language of a civilization - of our existence. We touch the book and turn the page, and thus we are bound to our destiny. — Carew Papritz

The terrible truth about depression, and the part of its nature that terrifies me the most, is that it appears to operate beyond reason; feelings happen to you for no apparent cause. Or rather, there is usually an initial cause, a 'trigger'as they say in therapeutic circles, but in severe depression the feelings of sadness, grief, loneliness and despair continue long after the situation has resolved itself. It is as if depression has a life of its own, which is perhaps why so many sufferers refer to it as a living thing, as some sort of demon or beast. — Sally Brampton

A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you're famous, it's as if you've got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey. — Heathcote Williams

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be. — Bill Shankly

God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men, and brown men, and yellow men; God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in? — Joe Simpson

Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit. — Livy

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life? — Frederica Mathewes-Green

An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah. — George Wein

I really wanted the book to make money, in an obsessive childish way - that feeling that if I wanted it enough, it should happen. It should happen. — Gillian Flynn

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business. — Leos Carax