Martegiani Ring Quotes & Sayings

Sound is of no use to human evolution. in fact, it gets in the way. — Haruki Murakami

Being a developmental psychologist didn't make me any better at dealing with my own children, no. I muddled through, and, believe me, fretted and worried with the best of them. — Alison Gopnik

One of the definitive works on gay life. Through this collective testimony we may come to understand what it is to be 'the other'; in short, the other part of ourselves. — Studs Terkel

Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life. — Joseph Campbell

If everyone were allowed to interpret the ambiguous passages for themselves, their conclusions might diverged wildly. People would move apart in as many different directions as there were people, the community would fragment, and the world swallow up the pieces and who was to say the great revelation would not then vanish as if it had never been? — Tamim Ansary

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I assure that I should breathe my last without pain and almost with joy if I were certain of leaving to the friends who love me, not poignant regrets, but a gentle, affectionate, somewhat melancholy remembrance of me. — Frederic Bastiat

You get to a point where you just have to give up,"...she deeply understood the "relief" of finding yourself to be small in the face of mystery. — Sara Miles

It's the worst yet. I'm in TEFL City.'

'TEFL City' because we called those times 'TEFL-pondering mornings', when your only option felt like emigration and teaching. — Emma Jane Unsworth

Thus the headstrong German Shepherd dog, Fritz, and Moritz, the Barbaryy ape, innocently and gallantly defending his mate, plunge Greece into a political void. — Louis De Bernieres

I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake. — Gustave Courbet

decision. I was tired of his jealousy, sick of his belief that the only permissible topic of conversation was his unrecognized genius. — Francine Prose

A good name for a gang would be The Uneducated Idiot Tough Guys. — Demetri Martin

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions. — Charles Edward Merriam

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. — Charles Bukowski