Luomajoki Quotes & Sayings

I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people. — Henry Miller

Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time. — John Brunner

from our dinner guests. I almost blanched just thinking the word guest. — Melissa Haag

To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I — Ayn Rand

He left as silently as he'd come. Pierre LaManche favored crepe-soled shoes, kept his pockets empty so nothing jangled or swished. Like a croc in a river he arrived and departed unannounced by auditory cues. Some of the staff found it unnerving. — Kathy Reichs

The man who'll lay the last stone here isn't even born yet. — Andre Aciman

You write because the brain is an endless wilderness whose roughest terrain can only be traveled with a pencil. — Durs Grunbein

We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me. — Steven Soderbergh

This method is: first, to create better fundamental conditions of social development by establishing a profound feeling for social responsibilities among the public; second, to combine this feeling for social responsibilities with a ruthless determination to prune away all excrescences which are incapable of being improved. Just — Adolf Hitler

You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music, nobody plays the mandolin, and you're too dumb to write songs about mythology or Middle-earth. So what's your style? Three chords, cranked out fast and loud and distorted because your instruments are crap and you can't play them worth a damn. And you scream your lungs out to cover up the fact that you can't sing. It should suck, but here's the thing - it doesn't. Rock and roll can be so full of itself, but not this. It's simple and angry and raw. — Gordon Korman

At conception, we start as a single cell that contains all the DNA needed to build our body. The plan for that entire body unfolds via the instructions contained in this single microscopic cell. To go from this generalized egg cell to a complete human, with trillions of specialized cells organized in just the right way, whole batteries of genes need to be turned on and off at just the right stages of development. Like a concerto composed of individual notes played by many instruments, our bodies are a composition of individual genes turning on and off inside each cell during our development. — Neil Shubin

I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me. — Robert Low

For Moderators, the first bite tastes the best, and then their pleasure gradually drops, and they might even stop eating before they're finished. For Abstainers, however, the desire for each bite is just as strong as for the first bite - or stronger, so they may want seconds, too. — Gretchen Rubin

Honest to God, dollface, you need to stop running around in that fuckin' nightie. You're killin' me. — Kristen Ashley