Kastner Mansion Quotes & Sayings

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter. — Abraham Cowley

When people call up Rush Limbaugh and say, 'It's an honor to speak to you,' I want to shoot myself. — Alexander Theroux

doing my job. I swore I'd never go back home to my parents and their crazy fundamentalist ranch in the desert, — Viv Daniels

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron? — Alfred Russel Wallace

The gifts we received from the dead: those were the world's only genuine gifts. All other things in the world were commodities. The dead were, by definition, those who gave to us without reward. And, especially: our dead gave to us, the living, within a dead context. Their gifts to us were not just abjectly generous, but archaic and profoundly confusing.
Whenever we disciplined ourselves, in some vague hope of benefiting posterity, in some ambition to create a better future beyond our own moment in time, then we were doing something beyond a rational analysis. Those in that future could never see us with our own eyes: they would see us only with the eyes that we ourselves gave to them. Never our own eyes: always with their own. And the future's eyes always saw the truths of the past as blinkered, backward, halting. Superstition. — Bruce Sterling