Monogatari Series Second Season Quotes & Sayings

The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues. — Alex Pareene

Why do tyrants understand the dangers of a democratic imagination more than our policy makers appreciate its necessity? — Azar Nafisi

I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden. — Janet McTeer

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. — Eric Sevareid

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us. — Will Rogers

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers. — Sheri S. Tepper

In these considerations there may be an entire philosophy for someone with the strength to draw conclusions. It won't be me. Lucid vague thoughts and logical possibilities occur to me, but they all dim in the vision of a ray of sunlight that gilds a pile of dung like wetly squished dark straw, on the almost black soil next to a stone wall.

That's how I am. When I want to think, I look. When I want to descend into my soul, I suddenly freeze, oblivious, at the top of the long spiral staircase, looking through the upper-storey window at the sun that bathes the sprawling mass of rooftops in a tawny farewell. — Fernando Pessoa

It was likely, then that this - -this stumbling walk on a wet night across a ploughed field- - meant death. Death - -the thing one had always heard of (like love), the thing the poets had written about. So this was how it was going to be. But that was not the main point. — C.S. Lewis

People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky. — Steve Carell

Just remember this, girl, the water you hate is the water that's going to drown you. — Jonathan Odell

The world's now placid, featureless, and culturally dead: nothing really new has been created since the Overlords came. The reason's obvious. There's nothing left to struggle for, and there are too many distractions and entertainments. Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else, you could follow less than a twentieth of the entertainment that's available at the turn of a switch! No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges - absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won't be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV! — Arthur C. Clarke

We are naught but a collection of the people we have known and the paths we have followed. — Jeremy Laszlo