Memeland Quotes & Sayings

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. — Sun Myung Moon

I decided to "find myself" in monumental sculpture. Alas, monumental sculpture is a very conservative genre. The cause is the monumentality itself. You can secretly write novels and symphonies. You can secretly experiment on canvas. But just try to hide a twelve-foot-high sculpture! — Sergei Dovlatov

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together. — Tom Hodgkinson

You've picked up a rummy habit," James Banister said cordially as they approached one another. "Sort of a crouch. You look a bit ... well, I'm sorry, but you look a bit Victor Hugo, if you catch my drift. Would you like to adjourn to a cathedral or something? — Nick Harkaway

The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio. — Stirling Moss

See, music is about style. — Miles Davis

Most of us would like to think that we possess a "moral instinct." Perhaps we imagine that we would be rescuers in some future catastrophe. Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well. There is little reason to think that we are ethically superior to the Europeans of the 1930s and 1940s, or for that matter less vulnerable to the kind of ideas that Hitler so successfully promulgated and realized. A — Timothy Snyder

If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it. — Rebecca McKinsey

Dying is not a sin. Not living is. — Jack Lemmon

I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly. — Robert Barry

No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may still be ahead of you.
Don't misunderstand me: the pain of your loss will remain with you for the rest of your life. But great joy will be there right beside it.
Deep sorrow and deep joy can exist within you, side by side. At every moment. And it's not confusing. And it's not a conflict. — Augusten Burroughs