Modernisme Porta Quotes & Sayings

You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it. — Pelle Almqvist

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment. — Michel De Montaigne

I look spooky but I'm really nice. — Sharon Needles

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. — Maya Lin

Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't. And he says the American dream is dead. — Evan Osnos

I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct it or be a musician. — Aaron Koblin

Ike always loved the sunshine, and I like to imagine that wherever he is now, it's as sunny as can be. Of course, nobody knows what happens to you after you die, but it's nice to think of my husband someplace very, very hot, don't you think? — Lemony Snicket

It makes a great difference to the look of a novel whether its author believes that the world came late into being and continues to come by a creative act of God, or whether he believes that the world and ourselves are the product of a cosmic accident. It makes a great difference to his novel whether he believes that we are created in God's image, or whether he believes we create God in our own. It makes a great difference whether he believes that our wills are free, or bound like those of the other animals. — Flannery O'Connor

In the world of lovers, there is no fear. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together. — Mary J. Miller

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening. — J. William Fulbright

That was ridiculous," I told Dorian, once she'd left. "She's not the kind of person to fall for your flirting." "On the contrary," said Dorian. "She's exactly the kind of person to fall for it. I understand these warrior maids, you know. They live such harsh, cold lives, always trying to keep up with the men ... when really, they just need someone to make them feel like a woman. And that, of course, is an area in which I excel. Why, if I'd had ten minutes alone with her - — Richelle Mead

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed. — Edwidge Danticat