Meandros Spearfishing Quotes & Sayings

I'm not mad, Mason. I am crushed. Acting mad makes it easier to deal with than letting it rip me apart. — Cheryl McIntyre

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought. — Salman Rushdie

literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by plot. Whereas popular fiction, I tell them, is meant primarily as a means of escape, one way or another, from this present life, a kind of book equivalent of comfort food, literary fiction confronts us with who we are and makes us look deeply at the human condition. — Bret Lott

Dying is only one thing to be sad over ... Living unhappily is something else. — Morrie Schwartz.

When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go." — Nick Offerman

Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen ... Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still — Tycho Brahe

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause. — Swami Vivekananda

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit. — Anthony Braxton

If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.' — Terence McKenna

He's just a man," said Paul. "No matter what The Sun says about him."
"He makes miracles. Lightning in a glass bottle. Voices in a copper wire. What kind of a man can do that?"
"A rich one.) — Graham Moore

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little. — Daniel Kahneman

It often turns out very differently to how you feared. — Nina George

Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism. — Theodore Roosevelt

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory. — Leonardo Da Vinci