Minutero Quotes & Sayings

Whoever may still be sceptical whether knowledge of animal behaviour can help our understanding of man can find no support from Freud. — John Bowlby

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn — Friedrich Nietzsche

Patience and fortitude conquer all things. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One note is not music. It is what lies between the notes that makes the music. And what is between them is: their relationship. Relationships are the music life makes. Context creates meaning. Asking, "What is the meaning of life?" is the wrong question; it makes you look in the wrong places. The question is, "Where is the meaning in life?" The place to look is: between. — Carl Safina

I drink coffee sometimes, but Starbucks' coffee tastes like burnt ass," I say.
"Actually, it tastes nothing like burnt ass, Anna."
"And how would you know what burnt ass tastes like?"
He laughs. "That's for me to know ... and you to find out."
I'm not sure I want to find out, but whatever. — Fanny Merkin

What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan. — Richard Engel

You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody's partying, and they're doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really. — Tatiana Maslany

Love does not triumph easily or without pain, but story gives us the courage to endure the pain. — Madeleine L'Engle

Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore. — James Rosenquist

Love does not make you weak; it is the absence of it that does. — Melissa De La Cruz

I know the subtlest movements of the city because I no longer sleep. — Jojo Moyes

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep. — Robert Herrick

And just as he had earlier, during their lunch hour, insinuated the problem of innocence to the formalists - which had incensed them and boosted their immaturity a hundredfold - he was now making an issue of my modern legs. And there I was, listening and lapping it all up - his linking the calves of my legs with those of the new generation - and coming to feel the cruelty of youth toward old calves! And there was also a kind of leg camaraderie with the schoolgirl, plus a clandestine, voluptuous collusion of legs, plus leg patriotism, plus the impudence of young legs, plus leg poetry, plus young-blooded pride in the calf of the leg, and a cult of the calf of the leg. Oh, what a fiendish body part! — Witold Gombrowicz

Anybody that ties you to a chair at gunpoint is a bad guy. Do I really need to explain this? — Susan Ee