Mcmurdo Station Quotes & Sayings

By the 1980s beauty had come to play in women's status-seeking the same role as money plays in that of men: a defensive proof to aggressive competitors of womanhood or manhood. Since both value systems are reductive, neither reward is ever enough, and each quickly loses any relationship to real-life values. — Naomi Wolf

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God. That fact is written all across human history; but it is written most plainly across the recent history of Russia; which was created by Lenin. There the government is the God, and all the more the God, because it proclaims aloud in accents of thunder ... one essential commandment, Thou shalt have no other gods but Me. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I dreamed the world was an awful place," he said.
"It wasn't a dream," she told him. — Colin Cotterill

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python. — Jeanette Winterson

Limbo is worse than hell. — Marty Rubin

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this
tendency. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly. — Chuck Close

One is never told the truth. One has to find it out." "Whatever — Cameron Jace

Eric Leeds said at one point Prince wanted the band to all be vegan. Alan told his brother that to survive being in Prince's band you had to at least pretend to drink the Kool-Aid, so, Eric said, you had guys being vegan when Prince was around and eating whatever they wanted when he wasn't around. "He attached some spiritual component to it but looked at it as another way for him to exercise control," Eric said. "If you're gonna work for me then you have to conform to my ideal. — Toure

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed. — Elton John

I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work. — Andre Previn