Mogwat Quotes & Sayings

There is no business, no avocation, whatever, which will not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a little time, every day, to study. — Daniel Albert Wyttenbach

Bad luck alone does not embitter us that badly . . . nor does the feeling that our affairs might have been better managed move us out of range of ordinary disappointment; it is when we recognize that the loss has been caused in great part by others; that it needn't have happened; that there is an enemy out there who has stolen our loaf, soured our wine, infected our book of splendid verse with filthy rhymes; then we are filled with resentment and would hang the villains from that bough we would have lounged in liquorous love beneath had the tree not been cut down by greedy and dim-witted loggers in the pay of the lumber interests. Watch out, then, watch out for us, be on your guard, look sharp, both ways, when we learn--we, in any numbers--when we find who is forcing us--wife, children, Commies, fat cats, Jews--to give up life in order to survive. It is this condition in men that makes them ideal candidates for the Party of the disappointed People. — William H Gass

I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic books. — Christopher Buckley

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public. — Frank Zappa

I picked up the umeboshi from my tray and popped it into my mouth. I made a show of savoring the flavor. Truth be known, it was sour enough to twist my mouth as tight as a crab's ass at low tide, but I wasn't about to give her the satisfaction of seeing that. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you. — August Strindberg

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. — Lin Yutang

I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing. — Annie Baker

What is life for? Life is for love. — Debasish Mridha

You can have some stable things in life, and so long as you're not away from those things for too long, they can help keep you grounded. — Suki Waterhouse

Call it a personal foible. Some people are scared of spiders. I'm scared of immolation. Also spiders. — Mark Lawrence

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail. — Mandy Patinkin

Two days after your death, in a dream you text me many times. I read the first of them. ME! And so are the living comforted. — Marion Coutts

To resist a challenge is to resist life itself -Mogwat Of all challenges the greatest is to be yourself. Truth is often painful to speak but soothing to live. — Avi

Your truth will increase as you know listen to the truth of others — Martin Luther King Jr.

It is brought home to you ... that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior. — George Orwell