Machata Quotes & Sayings

They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you seven years for?'
'Being Gulley Jimson,' I said, 'and getting away with it. — Joyce Cary

There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered. — Jennifer Pahlka

Bulgakov always loved clowning and agreed with E. T. A. Hoffmann that irony and buffoonery are expressions of 'the deepest contemplation of life in all its conditionality — Mikhail Bulgakov

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize. — Pauline Oliveros

I meant it," he says.
"You meant what?"
"What I said in your apartment."
"You did?"
He nods.
We drop our cloths on the ground and hug each other. The path and the mountains and the entire world seem to slip away beneath us until only he and I remain. Then the sun rises over the peaks and warms my naked back. Of all the birthday gifts ever given in the history of the world, I can't imagine one better than an embrace like this from your best friend. — Ryan Winfield

Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially. — Patrick Rothfuss

The kids competed for a full 32 minutes. We want the kids to compete on every possession. — Eric Davis

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise. — Leo Kottke

You look like a black American was his ultimate compliment, which he told her when she wore a nice dress, or when her hair was done in large braids. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie