Monumentum Damnati Quotes & Sayings

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. — Gore Vidal

Those TV pictures had looked like scenes from hell. Flames leaping up into the night. Even so, cattle aren't people. Just a few months later Jack had turned on the telly once again and called to Ellie to come and look, as people must have been calling out, all over the world, to whoever was in the next room, 'Drop what you're doing and come and look at this. — Graham Swift

Truth doesn't need elaboration or embellishment; it can stand on its own two legs. All the adornment in the world doesn't make the truth any more true. — Philip Gulley

Life is too short not to be who you are — Libba Bray

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. — Grace Paley

Fixed formation is bad. Study this well. — Miyamoto Musashi

Without passions you have no experience whatever. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Once again it occurred to me that so many of the things I could do in New York involved eating and drinking. Had we been placed here on earth to do nothing more than eat and drink? — Joshua Ferris

There were two postmortem, ventilation wounds to the skull via the right eye," the Acme said. "Nada's double-tap after he was dead," Mac interpreted for Roland. "Yeah, yeah," Roland said. "We know we killed the S.O.B. Tell us something we don't know. — Bob Mayer

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me. — Reba McEntire

I know you so well, and you'll feel guilty, simplifying everything, putting the emphasis here or there according to your interest. — Hanif Kureishi

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!' — Pegi Young