Maknanya Desa Quotes & Sayings

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully. — Alain De Botton

There are no normal people - just look at your relatives, — Rudy Rucker

The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about. — Gay Talese

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19. — Paul Newman

What? I ask. I try not to get snappy with her. She hasn't really done anything wrong. Falling in love with Turner isn't a sin, but hey, bitterness coasts the tongue, right? I try to breath past it? — C.M. Stunich

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter. — Max Beerbohm

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of everything else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it. — Lee Smolin

The notion of carefully wrought bullshit involves, then, a certain inner
strain. Thoughtful attention to detail requires discipline and objectivity. It entails accepting standards and limitations that forbid the indulgence of impulse or whim. It is this selflessness that, in connection with bullshit, strikes us as inapposite. But in fact it is not out of the question at all. The realms of advertising and of public relations, and the nowadays closely related realm of politics, are replete with instances of bullshit so unmitigated that they can serve among the most indisputable and classic paradigms of the concept. And in these realms there are exquisitely sophisticated craftsmen who - with the help of advanced and demanding techniques of market research, of public opinion polling, of psychological testing, and so forth - dedicate themselves tirelessly to getting every word and image they produce exactly right. — Harry G. Frankfurt

If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper on it and name it's color, I know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin. — Sarah Weeks

Traffic lurched forward. I crawled slowly past a flatbed truck that was pulled off onto the grass beside the road. The hood of the truck was up. Seven or eight men in dingy clothes sat on the bed of the truck. They were waiting, too, but they seemed a little happier about it than I was. Maybe they weren't being pursued by an insane homicidal artist. — Jeff Lindsay

Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation. — Martin Edwards

I'm young at heart and dress accordingly. — Ivana Trump