Mamamatay Quotes & Sayings

I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks. — Katee Sackhoff

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears. — Cato The Younger

For it is the fate of every myth to creep by degrees into the narrow limits of some alleged historical reality, and to be treated by some later generation as a unique fact with historical claims ... this is the way in which religions are wont to die out: under the stern, intelligent eyes of an orthodox dogmatism, the mythical premises of a religion are systematized as a sum total of historical events; one begins apprehensively to defend the credibility of the myths, while at the same time one opposes any continuation of their vitality and growth; the feeling for myth perishes, and its place is taken by the claim of religion to historical foundations. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. — Rebecca Solnit

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it. — Richard Feynman

The lawyer was Randol Schoenberg, the grandson of a venerated Viennese composer who had fled the rise of Hitler. The return of this ominous heir was anything but welcome. The painting Schoenberg sought was a shimmering gold masterpiece, painted a century earlier, by the artistic heretic Gustav Klimt. It was a portrait of a Viennese society beauty, Adele Bloch-Bauer. — Anne-Marie O'Connor

I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic. — Chris Rock

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. — Winston Churchill