Jolting Spirit Quotes & Sayings

Those very superficial sensualists and profligates who lead the dance of Latin decadence have not seen, among their dancing girls and their pennies, that the disappearance of symbols was a precursor to the ruin of a people; communities only have abstract reasons for existing... — Josephin Peladan

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia. — Antonio Tabucchi

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps. — Dexter Fletcher

The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think. — Billy Connolly

Disenchantment, like any other fashion, having started off among the elite had now been passed down to finish its days among the lower orders. — Mikhail Lermontov

There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science. — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Purer colors ... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them. — Henri Matisse