Kategorie Zbran Quotes & Sayings

You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet. — Mahmoud Darwish

Long conversations with pals when neither you nor they have had a drink can be a test of palship. — P. J. O'Rourke

By understanding the world I mean being equal to the world. It is the hard reality of living that is the essential, not the concept of life, that the ostrich philosophy of idealism propounds. — Oswald Spengler

But just when a man expects he's earned the littlest bit of milk and honey, the world throws a load of horseshit at him. — Dean Koontz

How many of you have had a teacher at any level of your education who made you more excited to be alive, prouder to be alive, than you had previously believed possible? Hold up your hands, please. Now take down your hands and say the name of that teacher to someone else and tell them what that teacher did for you. All done? If this isn't nice, what is? — Kurt Vonnegut

I got a PBS mind in a reality TV world. — Zetta Brown

The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. — Jock Sturges