Messiter Tooze Quotes & Sayings

War takes a terrible toll on people, on families. And if war doesn't, then just ordinary life does. It changes them forever. — Ann Rinaldi

Some people make their best music when life is horrible. — Vince Staples

I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter. — Shahin Najafi

But the Fear (that sensation that all writers get of how the hell do words get from my puny little brain to into a book, and isn't magic somehow involved, and surely I'm not qualified to be involved in any part of that process, and I somehow managed that tomorrow, but you mean I have to do it this morning too, well how do I even start?) withdraws quite a bit when it's already light and lovely outside when I get to my desk. So I got right past that big moment today, and into the fun slide down towards the ending, yelling whee. — Paul Cornell

In The Future of an Illusion, Freud made the obvious point that religion suffered from one incurable deficiency: it was too clearly derived from our own desire to escape from or survive death. This critique of wish-thinking is strong and unanswerable, — Christopher Hitchens

It does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go. — Charles Bukowski

Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means. — Daniel Pinchbeck

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. — Fred Kent