Mielikki Forgotten Quotes & Sayings

The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation. — Glen Duncan

I think it's important as a player every now and again to play something that's influenced you as an artist just to expose the people to it. — Gavin DeGraw

Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment. — Roland Barthes

Don't kiss me now - here comes somebody. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done. — Jeff Lemire

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted. — George Orwell

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions ... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts. — A. Philip Randolph

Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition. — Stephen Jay Gould

Knowledge has become the key resource of the world economy. — Peter Drucker

I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more. — Salman Rushdie

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall. — Stephen King

Men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite. — Cormac McCarthy