Metabolists Quotes & Sayings

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust — Samuel Beckett

Sincerity like this staggers me; I've seen too little and too much of it one way and another; I've valued it so highly that when someone hands it to me as directly as you have, I'm not sure whether I should jump for joy or burst into tears. - Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1960 (age 19) — David Eso

I quit living and start dying.i'm sorry. — Wunny Azman

Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense. — Donald J. Boudreaux

The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists. — Toyo Ito

This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts. — J.D. Salinger

If Atheism writes upon the blackboard of the Universe a question mark, it writes it for the purpose of stating that there is a question yet to be answered. Is it not better to place a question mark upon a problem while seeking an answer than to put the label "God" there and consider the matter solved? Does not the word "God" only confuse and make more difficult the solution by assuming a conclusion that is utterly groundless and palpably absurd? — Joseph Lewis

There's a fine line between living in the moment and being downright stupid. — Kamini Patel

I'd also take any acting job ... well, not any acting job, that's not true. I'd take a cool acting job ... — Katie Aselton

It's a pity you are so poor & plain. And a shame you have such intelligence & spirit, Miss Middleton. You might otherwise make a man an acceptable spouse. — M.R.C. Kasasian

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter. — Corrie Ten Boom

When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. — Curtis Jackson

[in 1979] You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think? — Laurence Olivier

You have to be consistent and persistent and never give up. — Ehab Atalla

If you set your story in Rome, Ireland or Sheboygan, for that matter, go there. If you're broke, set it in the town where you live, or where you grew up. — Lynn Flewelling