Matila Waqanidrola Quotes & Sayings

His knowledge of ancient Greece was based entirely on a poem Edgar Allan Poe, a few homosexual encounters with restaurateurs (he ate free at almost every soda fountain in the city), and a plaster reproduction of the Akropolis which, for some reason, he had coated with red nail polish. — Leonard Cohen

Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over. — Alastair Reynolds

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. — Chuck Palahniuk

Where there is One, that One is me; where there are many, all are me; they see my face everywhere.
The Bhagavad Gita — The Bhagavad Gita

In every idea emanating from genius, or even in every serious human idea
born in the human brain
there always remains something
some sediment
which cannot be expressed to others, though one wrote volumes and lectured upon it for five-and-thirty years. There is always a something, a remnant, which will never come out from your brain, but will remain there with you, and you alone, for ever and ever, and you will die, perhaps, without having imparted what may be the very essence of your idea to a single living soul. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No matter what set she's been on over the last 12 years, my mother always finds a way to get in the way. Not in a bad way. Like, she once got caught on a law show I did called 'Philly' trying to take a picture - she was caught on-camera in the background. She does things like this. — Rick Hoffman

If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life. — Debasish Mridha

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity. — Chris Bosh

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. — Victor Hugo

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God. — John Shelby Spong

Your friends and family aren't your audience and neither should they be. — Christian Cook

You can't lose with the stuff I use!"; "Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn shame!"; "The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them"; "God doesn't want you to have your pie-in-the-sky, by and by, when you die. He wants you to have it now with a cherry on top!"; and "If it's that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn't even have a bribe for the gatekeeper! — Reverend Ike

Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in peace. She flecks her whip upon flesh that is more alive, upon that stream of hungry boys and girls who tramp the streets of every city, recognizable by their pride and discontent, who are the Future, and who possess the treasure of creative power. — Willa Cather

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet! — Ouida

What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it. — Robert Jay Lifton