Monkish Concept Quotes & Sayings

I have let you live, but for one purpose only: so that you can make your way back to Paris and tell them the following: that the deed you are about to witness was done for a woman, whose name I will not say, for she knows who she is; and that it was done by 'Half-Cocked' Jack Shaftoe, L'Emmerdeur, the King of the Vagabonds, Ali Zaybak: Quicksilver! — Neal Stephenson

Long live the weeds that overwhelm
My narrow vegetable realm!
The bitter rock, the barren soil
That force the son of man to toil;
All things unholy, marred by curse,
The ugly of the universe. — Theodore Roethke

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting. — Jane Elliot

Bitch from the lake?" asked Spike. "I'll tell you later. Just assume she's a mean-ass motherfucker if you see her coming and shoot her in the eyes. — Elle Casey

People often call fighting discrimination being "PC" because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged. — DaShanne Stokes

And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it. — Tess Gerritsen

No single individual, however eccentric or brilliant, could affect the enormous inertia of a society that had remained virtually unchanged for over a billion years. — Arthur C. Clarke

Amnesty is the forgiveness of something. Amnesty is anything that says, 'Do it illegally, it will be cheaper and easier.' — Marco Rubio

After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in. — Henry Miller

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. — Gore Vidal

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse. — Salman Rushdie