Lockup Full Quotes & Sayings

Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it. — Richard Leakey

Coincidences are the explanations of lazy and cowardly people for what they don't understand. — Patricia Nedelea

We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically. — Robert Gottlieb

Then we'll take the train to Paris tonight. There is a night train, isn't there? We'll catch it at Cannes. — Francoise Sagan

Cling to God, and leave all the rest to Him: He will not let you perish. Your soul is very dear to Him, He wishes to save it. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Books are the way the dead talk to the living. — Laurie Anderson

Remember the country and the age in which we live. Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable [ ... ]. Does our education prepare us for such atrocities? Do our laws connive at them? Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on a such footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open? — Jane Austen

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means. — Leonora Carrington

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa. — Henry Rollins

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it. — Cynthia Payne