Musculous Uvulae Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me. — Daniel A. D'Aniello

I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that you cannot stand who you are, and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years, your brain can't quite deal with it. It will try very hard to avoid that realization; it will try, in a last-ditch effort to keep your remaining parts alive, to remake the rest of you. This is, I believe, different from the suicidal wish of those who are in so much pain that death feels like relief, different from the suicide I would later attempt, trying to escape that pain. This is a wish to murder yourself; the connotation of kill is too mild. This is a belief that you deserve slow torture, violent death. — Marya Hornbacher

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object. — Howard Hodgkin

Thus people
so it seems to me
Become good friends from sheer ennui. — Alexander Pushkin

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. — Baltasar Gracian

A thug only understands you when you speak his language — Alexander Lukashenko

Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it. — Daniel Smith

Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. — William Goldman

The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

These question-boundaries ...are ours, not of reality. We are led to them, caged by them not only culturally and intellectually, but quite physically, by the restlessness of our eyes and their limited field and acuity of vision. — John Fowles

Everyone's life is an evolution of emotions, spirit and beliefs. The storyline changes, plots thicken, main characters mature and new spiritual journeys begin. This is true of inspirational authors. Their books represent only the stages of their life. New triumphs of the soul have yet to be written! — Shannon L. Alder

I'm the easiest person to sell as a villain. Because of my flamboyant lifestyle, because of me being German, the way I am. — Kim Dotcom

The computer is really good for editing your ideas, and it's really good for getting your ideas ready for publishing out into the world, but it's not really good for generating ideas. — Austin Kleon

I value loyalty way too much to waste it on folks who don't value me. — Alexandra Elle