Lubranos 36 Quotes & Sayings

Obama's not Jesus. He can't walk on water. — Mr. T

The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true. — Willard Van Orman Quine

Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you. — Annie Dillard

Listen, my timing might be bad, but my intentions are good. — Karyn Bosnak

Epidermal Macabre
Indelicate is he who loathes
The aspect of his fleshy clothes,-
The flying fabric stitched on bone,
The vesture of the skeleton,
The garment neither fur nor hair,
The cloak of evil and despair,
The veil long violated by
Caresses of the hand and eye.
Yet such is my unseemliness:
I hate my epidermal dress,
The savage blood's obscenity,
The rags of my anatomy,
And willingly would I dispense
With false accouterments of sense,
To sleep immodestly, a most
Incarnadine and carnal ghost. — Theodore Roethke

Being aware of who you are, you will ensure that you do not waste your time spending energy on unnecessary things — Sunday Adelaja

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant. — W. E. B. Griffin

Hitler believed nothing, so he was free to believe in anything. — George Friedman

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words. — Ngaio Marsh

I can't survive,' he once told me of his refusal to come indoors,'if I can't hear the orchestra the way I like to hear it. — Steve Lopez

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change. — Barack Obama

We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much over the fittings and furnishings of this ante-room; and more than that, it will give dignity and purpose to the fleeting days to know they are linked with the eternal things as prelude and preparation. — Minot Judson Savage

What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause. — Chang-rae Lee