Nachbar Coins Quotes & Sayings

I stayed only two days in the capital. I was welcomed by a cheering citizenry, who threw flowers at my head. It was disconcerting to think I could have put almost any young man in my retinue on a white horse and they would have thrown flowers at him instead. It was not me they cared about, only what I meant to them: a cessation of hostilities, a chance for prosperity, food on the table. — Megan Whalen Turner

The whores would be just coming out of their houses making ready for the night, yawning lazily after their sleep and settling the hairpins in their clusters of hair. He would pass by them calmly waiting for a sudden movement of his own will or a sudden call to his sinloving soul from their soft perfumed flesh. — James Joyce

I think there is no light in the world
but the world

and I think there is light — George Oppen

People who feed off chaos are hungry for attention and starved spiritually. Their appetite for dysfunction is insatiable. Don't allow them to feast off the blessings God prepared for YOU. — Carlos Wallace

Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. — Robert Louis Stevenson

A song that straight people related to, now they find out it's about two guys? The flip side, or what I now know to be the upside, was that I had a large audience who might not have known about my homosexuality, were very attached to the work, and could now see that love and loss and hope are universal emotions that can't be owned, controlled, or denied by law or religion. — Bob Mould

Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it. — Don Hertzfeldt