Mimetite Quotes & Sayings

Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design. — Philip K. Dick

As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.) — Quentin Crisp

Tickets and lifts begged on carts, but Grigori was mesmerized by her face as she talked. Once again Lev listened with rapt attention, making amusing comments, asking the occasional question. Soon, Grigori noticed, Katerina had turned in her seat and was talking exclusively to Lev. Almost, Grigori thought, as if I was not even here. — Ken Follett

My shoulders tense. I swear Gray gossips more than a flock of old ladies at a cotillion. Where are he and Ivy anyway? — Kristen Callihan

The highest evidence of nobility in a Christian is self-control. We — Ellen G. White

Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world. — J.M. Blaut

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MR ELTON JOHN! — Caitlin Moran

We're Cinder and Ella, woman! We're supposed to get our fairy-tale ending! — Kelly Oram

Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined. — Richard Armour

The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in ways that are deeply influenced by the particular features of the tongue that we speak. The second is that we are all the same - that we can share the same broad and narrow kinds of feelings, information, understandings, and so forth. Without both of these suppositions, translation could not exist. Nor could anything we would like to call social life. Translation is another name for the human condition. — David Bellos

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days. — Jeff Kinney

A soul without a center feels constantly vulnerable to people or circumstances. — John Ortberg

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. — Edward Abbey

Permanence in the land of sleep is better than gold in the world of wakefulness. — Jonathan L. Howard