Mechanicka Quotes & Sayings

A cat is an excuse for a lonely woman to talk to herself. That's what a cat is. — Mark Helprin

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there. — Lydia Davis

Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself? — Margaret Atwood

One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals. — Lewis Mumford

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it. — Henry Rollins

Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G. — Carol Leifer

Jesus never consults your past to determine your present. — T. B. Joshua

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Though there were auspicious signs that preceded and accompanied his birth, preparing the world for the majestic and kingly, the birth of Jesus itself was of the humblest peasant parentage, in an unimportant town, and in the roughest of buildings. He made a career of rejecting marks of status or privilege: he touched lepers, washed the feet of his disciples, befriended little children, encouraged women to join his entourage, and, finally submitted to crucifixion by a foreign power. Everything about Jesus spoke of servitude: if Jesus is our model of leadership there can be no avoidance of the style by pastors. — Eugene H. Peterson

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do. — Charles Tillman

If you've got a deadline and you're an artist, you've just got to be on the case - nothing else can come in the way, or you won't make good work ... the people around you just have to understand. — Catherine Yass

The Western poet Rainer Maria Rilke has said that our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.12 — Sogyal Rinpoche