Ludoviceum Quotes & Sayings

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. — Caroline Knapp

Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times. — Bill Irwin

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction. — Margaret Atwood

It's as if every soft curve of her fantastic figure was made solely for my pleasure and punishment; her pussy made strictly for my cock to fuck. Every inch of her was made for me and only me and I'm not letting this one go. She's mine. — Ella Dominguez

The scientific obligation is first to establish the cause of the disease beyond reasonable doubt. — Gary Taubes

All was there - the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message. — Winston S. Churchill

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. — Norman Schwarzkopf

Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture! — Sophie Von La Roche

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself ... with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions. — Aristotle.

But if anything in thy own disposition
gives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just as he dies who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles. — Marcus Aurelius

When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose. — Jahangir Khan

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe. — Pankaj Mishra

William Burroughs was simultaneously old and young. Part sheriff, part gumshoe. All writer. He had a medicine chest he kept locked, but if you were in pain he would open it. He did not like to see his loved ones suffer. If you were infirm he would feed you. He'd appear at your door with a fish wrapped in newsprint and fry it up. He was inaccessible to a girl but I loved him anyway. — Patti Smith

I love playing music, so I think the whole John Varvatos look is kind of cool. I think he has a great style. — Henrik Lundqvist

How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death? — Willie Nelson