Mlock Quotes & Sayings

I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me. — Helena Bonham Carter

The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable. — Frederick Lenz

I hold my plush monkey over the bannister and let it drop. Its eyes light up when you squeeze its kidneys as whose eyes, I suppose, would not. — Frederick Buechner

Atheism, which is mere emptiness and too depressing for words, and leads to socialism. — Julian Barnes

I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text. — Bong Joon-ho

Fear arises from the weakness of the flesh over which the devil has power. — Brigham Young

Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy. — M.J. Ryan

This was in [Orwell's] 1946 'Politics and the English Language,' an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains the definitive SNOOT statement on Academese. Orwell's famous AE translation of the gorgeous 'I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift' in Ecclesiastes as 'Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account' should be tattooed on the left wrist of every grad student in the anglophone world. — David Foster Wallace

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything. — Robert Reich