Nasher 61 Quotes & Sayings

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner . — Charles Stross

The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain. — Brenda Shoshanna

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. — David Antin

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock. — Kurt Tucholsky

The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means. — Zach Galifianakis

From our first babblings to our last word,
we make but one statement, and that is our life.
— Richard Paul Evans

To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One woman, called Eva, used to visit my mother and sometimes we would call in next door to visit her. Sometimes Frau Eva gave me cakes and fruit drinks. I remember she was very kind. It was not until many years later that I understood just who she was. To me, at the time, she was just a very nice woman who lived next door sometimes, although she did tend to go away, and was often not seen for several months. — Alfred Nestor

We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it ... — Neil Strauss

But we also figured out how to do science, which helped us develop technology. — Ernest Cline

Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times. — John McCain