Mu Eca Quotes & Sayings

She had no way of evaluating the beauty of someone so young. All young people looked beautiful to her now. — Christopher Bollen

(The Revsons apparently did not like a young psychologist named Joyce Brothers, who appeared as an expert on boxing. Thus the questions given her were exceptionally hard - they even asked her the names of referees - in the desire to get her off the show; their strategy had no effect: She became the second person to win $64,000.) — David Halberstam

It is the occupation of politicians to deny this ubiquity, nay, universality of corroded hearts, to discount the barren laboriousness of all paths. Reduce corporate taxes, they say, or redistribute the wealth of the parasitic class to the desperate class, and then all who matter can cross the Jordan together and enter into a new land of happiness whose prior inhabitants will dissolve into sea-colored ghosts of dust. — William T. Vollmann

Every sensitive person should make his point of view let known, at least, to one person other than yourself on every subject that gets you worked up. This is basic to every social being. And like theory of vibration it gains momentum as the time passes. However, it also happens that it can turn out to be wasted effort. Because we are common people. The fact that we are of no consequence, so are our utterances and statements, makes us indifferent to a lot of issues and situations around us. However, in a set-up we live in, it becomes incumbent upon every educated individual to air our views for the general good of all. Like wise, as public-spirited individuals we must believe in doing something, rather than grumble at home over the breakfast table that the World is not a pleasant place. After all, lighting a lamp is wiser than cursing the darkness. — Manasa Rao

That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe. — Anais Nin

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. — Elizabeth McCracken

The sphinx will always have to be looked after. — Zahi Hawass

But there we are. Some things never do make perfect sense. There must be some explanation, and it is perhaps a little like the Doctrine of the Perfect Partner. We must be content to know that she exists, somewhere in the world, and try not to care overmuch that we will probably never meet her. — Iain M. Banks

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom — Logan Pearsall Smith

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth. — Anais Nin

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus. — Conor Oberst

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes — Jack Handy

To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good. — Sakyong Mipham

A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness. — Charles Bukowski

It's what happens when you shoot someone," Wayne pointed out. "At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them. — Brandon Sanderson